It follows previous awards for the film including a Royal Television Society prize and an Amnesty award. The girl is 17 and since the age of six she’s been living in orphanages and foster homes. I had no idea what I had on the wall. Half of the sewer is a lounge for junkies. Many who saw me thought to themselves: ‘GOD! Bruce Lee, this underworld’s king and primary drug dealer, is a complicated figure. Discuție. It was winter, cold. No one would touch me, and my pockets were full of watches, money, gold. They have all they need – after a fashion. How the diseased and destitute are forced to carve out a grim existence in the sewers of Eastern Europe The sewers, and their king Bruce Lee, were the subject of a recently released Channel 4 News film. Bruce Lee wears tens of army decorations, brooches, bells and key-rings – many are made of solid silver, with semi-precious stones. In a little town from Moldavia, a dwarfish lad pisses on a railway line. In 2013, the police came with a bulldozer over them. They bring copper, metal, items, trinkets, telephones, laptops…. I call God, father. Versions of this feature were published by Channel 4, Daily Mail and lots of other channels from around the world. Since then I care a lot about him. If he had stayed he would have gone to jail. He was peaceful with me, even his lieutenants were ok with me. We used hundreds of bags of sand and cement. He was given conditional bail and he ended up in a fight a few months after the trial. View All. Wise guys go to them daily demanding their share. Bruce Lee was born Florin Cora and he’s from Râmnicu Valcea. I am the terminator. Bruce's father, Lee Hoi-chuen, was Han Chinese, and his mother, … He wanted to beat up one of our boys. I’ve got nothing to spend my money on I walk only barefoot; my clothes are over a year old. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. But in the sewer Stefan is a wreck. I thought about these poor losers, I didn’t want them bitching that I ruined their pipes. For me they meant something. One man, calling himself Bruce Lee and known as the 'King Of The Sewers', paints his head in aurolac, a lacquer used to paint metal which causes a high if breathed in. He was arrested and imprisoned for two months. They are not running around uselessly, they are not out robbing and stealing. Come back to me and I pay you. This is exactly the main impression. He had gold, silver, diamonds in his hands and he never cheated me. Darkness. Below the ordinary hustle and bustle of the city of Bucharest, Romania, hundreds of people like Lee live underground in the sewer tunnels beneath the city. When he was younger, Bruce Lee was dressed as a bandit wearing a soldier’s helmet. He built a social centre that meets the needs of the people around him, and he governed it according to the best communal organizational method: he – the father, provides the cheap drugs, and his assistants, the apostles, hand them out to his followers. He got old, small, circular scars where the veins are visible. In the 90’s there was a different crowd here. However, on the occasion that Sofia detangled his fur and they went to a bar, he appeared as a baby that was so hairy that it upset the other customers, and they had to be asked to leave. I don’t want people to judge me by my clothes. He made enough money to buy a hotel for his gang.He wanted to buy Dunărea, near the station, wich now lies abandoned. He is regarded as the king of the sewers because he determines who is permitted to move in. Revealed: critically important antibiotics in use on UK pig farms March 7, 2020 March 13, 2020. The sewers are controlled by a man called Bruce Lee who walks around with a pack of dogs. Initially I was afraid of Bruce Lee because he wore chains and smeared aurolac all over his face. This is how employ them. There are rogues who want to harm us; they are trying to squeeze money out of the guys. I ended up the chief of the sewer. No one would have a clue. As the police have their rules, that’s how they respect my rules. If you walk with me on the street, I swear to you, the police stand aside when they see me and they talk nicely. Either asphyxiated or burnt. In a sewer under Bucharest’s biggest train station a man covered with iron chains and tattoos sits on a matrimonial bed watching an action movie on a flat screen. He was on the frontline. Everybody comes here and says oh, we tried to take them to some social center or whatnot. You feel relief, you can escape, you run, you can do anything you want. He’s now doing a PHD in Public Policies on drug issues. Deep under the streets of Bucharest – in Europe, in the 21st century – there is a network of tunnels and sewers that is home to hundreds of men, women and children stricken by drug abuse HIV and TB. There’s also Albus, a people loving half-breed Labrador. While he was away, martial law was declared in the sewer. He’d smear aurolac paint over his clothes, face and hair. I wear a chain of about 30-40 kilos, one of those 10 metre long ones. He keeps the underground supplied with a metallic paint called Aurelac that … Bruce Lee, King of Sewers. He only knew how to protect himself, but on the street you must break all the rules, there is only one rule: survival. And since I’m a good fighter I finished them all and took their place. We all called him father. This is where afflicted generations abandoned by Romania immediately after the revolution live. I would piss myself every time they hit me. e kicks him out of the sewer and rests his hand on the hustled girl’s shoulder. That is why I live in the sewer and help the poor ones. She works as a prostitute, it’s her business, she has her own money, explains Bruce Lee. He loved a homeless guy for many years whom he took home. And its likely to do little for the Bucharest’s people of the tunnels, UK university’s return of looted Benin Bronze puts pressure on other institutions, Myanmar opposition group calls for UN peacekeepers to stop killing spree, Pfizer Covid jab 100% effective for children aged 12-15, new study suggests, Some will say Macron has acted ‘too late’ on France’s lockdown, says The Economist’s Sophie Pedder, Brazil’s health system ‘bedlam’ as daily Covid deaths reach record high amid variants fear. Bruce Lee, this underworld’s king and primary drug dealer, is a complicated figure. It reverted to how it was. I learned all these things one by one from everyday life. If you break them, it means you’ve got something against me. No one makes the kind of money he makes. They wouldn’t arrest me as I made them sick, I reeked of aurolac paint. He doesn’t necessarily agree with Bruce Lee’s businesses, but these kids in the sewers need him. It’s purely an impression that someone else, a presence, participates in what happens within you. Many of his friends died because of drug use. He covers himself from head to toe in Aurolac silver paint, he identifies with the drug. I won’t even mention money. I wasn’t selling. They are very dirty; they have syringes. Lee says that these residents use drugs because it takes their problems away. He hasn’t met a woman to his liking yet. Then go steal or beg for me.’ All the rules disappeared. They had no cables, no multiple plugs, they were pathetic. Bruce Lee and his brigade were suspected of stealing some expensive art from the home of some French people. Under my rule, everyone has their own money, they have what to eat. But he was prepared: he had a jackhammer, pickaxe and flex. He slept on artificial fibres at the bottom of a manhole, among rubbish and rats. God have mercy on us… Viorel takes out a bag from his chest pocket, breathes deeply into it, then cimbs down the hole. People outside are aloof. It’s just that I always out-smarted them. If she wants to live with you, fine. The Aurolac is better than this glue. We’d emerge at night, batty, from the sewer. You’re like Superman. Any short circuit goes straight to his electric panel and not to the source. The pipe is now protected of the extra weight by two layers of concrete. All the one hundred dogs that he cares for seem to be hypnotized by the sound of his armour. Gabi left his parents in Focsani in order to avoid prison. First, they need to go through Bruce Lee, the leader of the group. Another drug similar to methadone is also on sale. These are my rules. He can’t stop until he’s run out of money – which doesn’t take longer than a couple of hours. Superbugs in our pork. He was going begging, breaking into shops, he did anything that made the bosses happy. Every time they caught him they stripped and beat him with slim fibre glass sticks. They removed the manhole covers, pepper-sprayed the whole sewer and sent down the police special forces. Light, heating, understanding and parental advice. People come and ask him for money to pay their rent or bank loans. Almost all of them come from communist orphanages. Now, because of me, they don’t touch them anymore, they know they’ll come to me and tell me. I hit like a hurricane, but I don’t feel well. You can only crawl in and only if you’re less than 70-80 kilos. Around him, the sewer is packed with men, women and children injecting themselves and sniffing glue. I amazed them. He spends about 20 million a day. He lived in the sewer as well, around Dristor-Unirii. First and foremost the use of alcohol is not allowed here! The kids were careless, they’d get high and burn down the sewer. Dolphin slaughter. Marius thinks that the society is responsible for the poor ones living in the sewers. The system treated them in a most savage way. One day only. 4 of 4 The following morning, the day of Catalina's funeral, it was the turn of Bruce Lee - the self-styled "King of the Sewers". Everything in the sewer was built by him. There’s a guy in there with a shamanic look. I eat little meat, but I overindulge with cheese and milk. MAN (Translation): "œBruce Lee, King of the Sewers." Juice and those stupid things, energizers. God doesn’t look at clothes or muscles, he looks at the heart. The police confiscated anything they found to be of value: cash, three kilos of copper, brass, paintings. We live out of garbage, and we steal every now and then. You hallucinate differently. 54% Upvoted. I am the only one who succeeded in achieving something for the homeless. We even have internet here. save. He went through a lot on the streets, but when he first entered the sewer he was terrified. In the underground tunnels of Bucharest lies the hidden world of the Lost Boys. I'm sorry I don't speak Romanian but have been wondering what happened to him. He has visions. It was a valuable antique icon. I didn’t know it was made out of silver and gold. Bruce Lee, the Chinese actor was Florin’s childhood idol. They see that I’m close to them. MAN (Translation): This is me as a child, I grew up here in the sewers. They also claimed they raided an upmarket villa – away from the tunnels believed to be owned by network’s leader, Bruce Lee. Some dogs curl up behind him and press, as if they would like to lift and carry him around on their backs. He encourages himself and moves on, through the syringes, all the way to the end, to the counter with the powders. They found themselves in the situation of not being able to supply electricity to keep their water coolers working. Not only in Dristor, all over Bucharest. On the day of the funeral, Bruce Lee (left) – the self-styled King of the Sewers — arrived barefoot and with his head painted with aurolac, bright silver paint that the addicts sniff. If they see that you’re better dressed they will sell you a quarter of a gram for a million and a half. After the raid the city hall poured concrete over the entrances. You know what he asks for? The price of the powder varies depending on who you are. Bruce Lee sorted things out so that they only had a low temperature. He broke the concrete wall and cut through the steel concrete with the flex. The rooms were built for the girls – I want them to have privacy, cleanliness and ventilation. But this underworld is also home to a controversial figure known only as Bruce Lee… A patched vest crowded with war medals and brooches of semi-precious stones covers him. People would die. This makes you feel just like drinking a pint, only that it gives you a nicer vision and pleasure than the alcohol. Nov 10, 2018. First I got under their skin, than I formed my own gang. He likes to call himself “King of the Sewers” his arms and torso are a patchwork of scars and tattoos from a lifetime of self harm. During daytime he uses a fuel powered generator. To empty the sewer? When he walks or crawls through the sewer you think it’s Santa Claus. Moves to ban antibiotic pollution from pharma factories I put them on my chest in a cross, to weigh more. When I was younger – maybe! You’re not the only one who has access to them. Covered in the silver paint they all inhale, to outsiders he appears like a sci-fi character stalking the streets with… This is how I keep fit. They saw how I could fight and they were left speechless. I’m the only in the entire country who knows all the sewers. We were happy that we didn’t need candles anymore. I was starving but I didn’t know how to steal. He knows Bruce Lee for 23 years now. Firstly they cut the electricity. Dozens were detained for questioning, including the 41-year-old suspected ringleader Bruce Lee, referred to as the "king of the sewers" and pictured above. Eèéêëėę! He’s speechless: they are filled with sugar. Copper, brass, paper. The king and boss of these hellish sewers is an orphan and former street-fighter, who calls himself Bruce Lee after the legendary kung-fu champion. The man behind the counter is called “Bruce Lee” (pictured above) after his street fighting days. Devils stab him in the heart. His feet slide between slabs of steel concrete. The only good thing was the heat generated by the pipes, and for this he had to pay the local rogues a fee. "Bruce Lee vs. Life" documentary with English subtitles. Bruce has lived in the sewers for over 24 years and he is basically King of the sewer people. I keep them on for months. After that, we found ourselves another place to rent, in a bank. The self-styled ‘king of the sewers’, Bruce Lee may be imprisoned – but another gang lord was bound to take his place. The sewers also have a huge population of children. Fracking goes global. He had billions, but he never took a penny without asking. He used drugs daily for eight years. Bruce Lee was born on November 27, 1940, at the Chinese Hospital in Chinatown, San Francisco.According to the Chinese zodiac, Lee was born in both the hour and the year of the Dragon, which according to tradition is a strong and fortuitous omen. They can’t sniff that much. I’d go to balconies, I’d steal from farmers, but I wasn’t a burglar. He lived in block entrances until he met Mariana, a prostitute hooked on heroin. – Bruce Lee is my father, and father is at home! We knocked through a huge wall and came across those cables. Mainline to addiction: A resident inspects a needle containing a synthetic drug similar to methadone No invite, no go! Since I had no lawyers, no papers, no nothing – everybody tried to double-cross me. Bruce Lee, King of Sewers. That’s what I want as well. More than 90% of these people have AIDS, HIV, hepatitis and TB. We had electricity in the sewer from a bus ticket office. It doesn’t make you as dizzy; you’re calmer and you speak sweetly and softly. Police have a raided network of tunnels and sewers in Bucharest, home to a community of drug addicts. He transformed the sewer into a shop for stolen items. In the end I connected them to my source here from the sewer. He covered the pipes and brought in electricity. By night, I steal electricity from the idiots, straight from the pole. e secured the sewer against all kinds of dangers they could confront: police, strangers, all the unwanted persons. The guy’s quite trippy. He is one of the children abandoned during Romania’s communist anti-abortion policy. A chubby intellectual is waiting beside a manhole in front of the Gara de Nord. Radios, tools, everything. When Ceausescu was toppled so was I. Man, it made me steal! He keeps the underground supplied with a metallic paint called Aurelac that … When he comes out from the underground and crosses the street the dogs get frantic. The man behind the counter is called 'Bruce Lee' after his street fighting days. He takes a sachet and empties it into himself to sooth his demons. Wearing a sheep coat and traditional clothing, all the rogues laughed at him. If people were missing they were either under arrest or out breaking into a shop. He controls the comings and goings of the damned and sells them drugs or a powdered metallic paint called Aurolac, which they inhale to ease the symptoms of hunger and cold. The self-styled ‘king of the sewers’, Bruce Lee may be imprisoned – but another gang lord was bound to take his place. Does anyone know what happened to Bruce Lee King of the sewers? The boys that were not caught would return in the morning with food, electrical items or clothes. But someone picked on me in the sewer and he stood up for me. I deposited everything in the sewer and whoever was hungry or needed clothing would go to one of the boys who kept a record of the stock. Andrei is the spitting image of Bruce Lee, with rotten teeth and the temper of a rabid pit bull. I don’t accept gifts, I don’t want anything for free. I was conned. This chance of a better life – we created that for ourselves and on our own. Radu Ciorniciuc. Farmageddon. With his demons on a leash, Stefan sits sweating on a hot pipe, leaning against the counter filled with powders and syringes. You are under the impression that you can fully love anyone. No one forced him to stay in school and he didn’t get along with the director of the boarding school where he lived. Back then he didn’t know how to connect to the street lights. He is the father of the homeless. I had no veins left on me. Liquid ivory. Maybe I did steal a painting or whatever they said I stole, a plasma. Bruce Lee – king of the sewers. To have 20 people around you, limbs intertwined like snakes, some cutting themselves… How can they sleep, eat? The girls here in our sewer are respected. The girls were raped and the bosses were bosses only for their own ends. They are led by a drug-pusher outcast who calls himself "Bruce Lee: King Of The Sewers." Bruce Lee starts hitting him with his fists, legs, karate. I’ve got a 9-year experience in martial arts.I’ve got 9 years of martial arts. He looks after the dogs as if they were children. Bruce says he never used a syringe, only aurolac. Thanks to him, it doesn’t rain over our heads. Food slaves. He gets a dirty bag out of his thick leather jacket, along with a tube of glue used to repair slippers. Bruce Lee, King of the Sewers, produced by Ecologist Film Unit’s co-director Jim Wickens for Channel 4 News, has won best short film at the 2015 One World Media awards. They only put enough to fill the corner of the bag. The father of the homeless comes in through a crack in the wall holdinga bag filled with liquid in his teeth. He had them vaccinated and takes them to the vet when they are ill. His favourite is Greta – a Pekingese the size of a loaf of bread. He must be mad!’ That was an advantage for me. They were the boys back then. If not, she’s free. Read about Bruce Lee, King Of The Sewers by Minors and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Dumbass! Police said the operation followed months of surveillance on what they described as an organised criminal gang and reports of child prostitution. hey sealed the manholes and trapped me down here. Following this incident a few tens grouped to lynch him, he hid in a humanitarian centre and when things calmed down he fled from the Station. He has a family and now he volunteers for an organisation that feeds the homeless. In the other half, tens of mean dogs guard the bedrooms. There's nothing new about him for a couple of years. Bruce Lee saw that he was helpless and he took him in. When he emerges he feels that his lungs are collapsing because of the heat and heavy air in the sewer. He is barefoot and has chains around his wrists and ankles secured with metal locks. There are only women at the entrance. First we built up a layer of bricks and concrete over the pipes and then I poured this concrete all over. The chains he wears on his wrists and ankles are for strength, agility and stamina. He got into a fistfight with some school mates, he caused a few scandals and found himself thrown out in the street. No one calls him boss or big guy, everyone calls him father, says Marius. Bruce Lee, King of Bucharest's Sewers (5-20-2014, 7 pm, Channel 4, UK, 13 min. ) But beneath its beautiful streets is another world, buried there after the fall of Romania's brutal communist dictatorship – a world of sewers and forgotten orphans. Stefan is hooked on injecting substances. We were bandits. He lived around orphanages from Babeni, Targu Jiu and Bistrita and he finished 8 years of schooling in a special school. Think about it. You can see Bruce Lee guiding them in. He pours half of the yellowish – gummy substance into the bag and sniffs until his eyes snigger. Briefly, I got rid of them all, because I didn’t like the way they were treating us, and I took over everything. I would go down to the creek and catch fish. These are the bedrooms. I cheat the losers nicely. Then the hoodlums with the powders arrived and imposed new rules: ‘You want a fix? Around him, the sewer is packed with men, women and children injecting themselves and sniffing glue. He can still do it, even at 40. Radu Ciorniciuc. Physically, your entire body gets mobilized. Source: Photographer and filmmaker Joost Vandebrug. Father would carry them out of the sewer, lift them in his arms and take them to the ambulance. We come from foster homes, poor, broken and alcohol ridden families. He befriended the father that introduced him to the business. Everything we needed. I’m amazed they can sleep in that place. Until I got to Bucharest I didn’t know how to steal. It was a few hundred years old. He retreats to a small park and opens the sachets. Bruce was released, sorted them out and it all went back to how it was. And its likely to do little for the Bucharest’s people of the tunnels They try all sorts of methods to bully us. He goes to a cash-point and withdraws all the money – 20 million and he descends into the sewer. Lee and his parents returned to Hong Kong when he was three months old. It’s terribly tragic. You dry up like a corpse. You cannot just walk in however, you have to be invited by the guy standing up, Bruce Lee. Police seized knives, swords, stolen paintings and a large quantity of stolen cash. But if each of them tells you their life story, how they spent these last years with me, you won’t believe it.”. While Viorel is playing around with some white liquid in a bottle lid, a girl creeps through the sewer adorned with dogs, aurolacs and a group of tramps who are trying out some powder. Then I could have fucked anyone. report. REPORTER: That says, Bruce Lee, King of the Sewers. I n a sewer under Bucharest’s biggest train station a man covered with iron chains and tattoos sits on a matrimonial bed watching an action movie on a flat screen. He found refuge in Dristor. hide. He tramped around Ramnicu Valcea, then travelled aimlessly around the country. Everything gravitates around Bruce Lee. The kitchen is over there in the back. Otherwise, you are dead. I was worried that I’d get carried away by some bad hallucination and lose it. The special troops have no chance. They stayed there for half a year until they were raided by the special police and kicked out by the owner.
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