Rk New York police investigate mysterious cases of people coming out of manholes

nerdsniper

What is “Rk”?

dsign

In books, movies and videogames people spend a considerable amount of time in the sewers. In fact, I’m pretty sure they spend more time in the sewers that in standup meetings. Reality mirrors fiction. Speaking of which, some getting acquainted with sewers may be in order for the upcoming AI apocalypse.

xg15

Sadly, no turtles were involved.

pogue

It's just the CHUDs. They mean you no harm if you leave them be.

7scan

For the unfamiliar, there is a subculture of urban exploration surrounding "draining", the act of exploring storm drains and (sometimes) sewers. It can be a fun adventure at times as many drains have large "features" such as massive underground rooms, historic brickwork, cave formations (e.g. stalactites), water storage tanks or waterfalls. Most of the time, they don't even smell that bad and you can get some cool photos. You also often will find oddly-shaped mushrooms growing out of the walls of the tunnels. This is most likely just some group of explorers who were not so careful to observe rule #2: don't be seen entering/exiting the drains. Rule #1 is "when it rains, no drains."

iJohnDoe

Possibly AI generated video?

arjie

This reminds me of the curious case of the guy on Twitter claiming that a bunch of young men from the nearby synagogue were tunneling around his apartment building and the whole thing seemed outrageously anti-Semitic until it was discovered that they were! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_synagogue_tunnel...

rurban

In Paris that would be underground techno concerts. In my town I did organize underground film screenings. In New York police readily asserts that "they are up to no good".

steve1977

Well, as long as they don't discover a river of pink slime...