Spelunking in Las Vegas

LowellPorter writes "There's an article here about some reporters who check out the sewers in Vegas after a known criminal escapes a police dragnet through them. They expect to find lots of people living in there, but only end up interviewing a couple of bums."

Comments

Reporters in Sewers?

[Captain Large Face]

Must be some kind of annual conference, surely?

Bums?

[ShwAsasin]

Why are you calling them bums, the politically correct term is "trailer impaired".

Just bums?

[Your_Mom]

They expect to find some people living in there, but only end up interviewing a couple of bums who live there.

What?!

No alligators?!

No mutant goldfish that are plotting world domination because of rensentnment from being flushed down the toilet?!

No rat-people?!

Goodness... The sewers in NYC are so much more exciting. I'm canceling my vacation to Las Vegas now that I know that nothing exciting happens down there.

Re:Just bums?

[MrFredBloggs]

"too big to fit completely in the water, unable to swim and flopping slowly through the murk"

They`ll find their way into Usenet eventually...

Please.

[Gannoc]

This isn't a story. Workers from the city are down there all the time, and know exactly what its like. These guys go down there, and narrate enough extra tension that it makes them seem like they're exploring Venus.

Next week: They're going to explore the woods on the side of the highway with nothing more than a flashlight and a scimitar. Nobody knows whats there....

"There was a brief flash of light as another truck went by. While it passed, the world seemed to stand still as my companion and I forgot to breathe in our quiet terror. The smell of exaust was almost overpowering, and I longed to be free of this hell. Suddenly, we heard a soft crunch from right at our feet! Jimmy fumbled for his scimitar while I readied the flashlight. It was what appeared to be a dixie cup. From how long ago, we couldn't say... There appeared to be a drying brown substance in the bottom of it, which we suspect is human blood. We had no time to ponder that however; we had a long journey ahead."

Looking for a troll

[oever]

The reporters were looking for a troll in the sewers, but couldn't find him.

I guess they had their threshold too high.
The should have looked at -1.

Boring

[stere0]

They found large concrete pipes with 5-6 people living inside them. These stories are far more interesting!

Here in Luxembourg, we have kilometers of casemates [pdf]. Only two sites are open to the public, but I've had the chance to explore a couple. Two years ago I saw some graffiti by people who fled underground during air strikes in WWII. I've never met any bums though.

Not nerdy?

[__past__]

Hey, after all, they were in a maze of twisting little passages, all alike.

How's that not "news for nerds, stuff that matters?"

Hope they took a flashlight....

[docbrown42]

...or they might have been eaten by a Grue.

-Ed

docbrown.net
Graphic Design, Web Design, Role-Playing Games...all the good stuff

For *real* tunnels, visit Moscow

[david.given]

Check out Mysteries under Moscow. A group have been exploring the tunnels under Moscow since the 1970s and have found:

• Up to 12 levels of tunnels
• Nuclear bunkers
• Lots of human skulls
• Whole tribes of people living there
• Mass burial sites
• A hastily abandoned chemical laboratory
• A 3000-seat bunker under a cathedral
• Strange religious rites
• All kinds of other weird stuff

It would be scary if it wasn't so fascinating. The article linked to above is quite old; have any Russian slashdotters seen the TV programme mentioned?