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

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."

I once rented a workshop that had previously been the home of a small jewelry making shop. Before moving my gear in, I vacuumed and mopped every surface and ran everything through a makeshift sluice box.

Recovered nearly 2oz of (powder) gold and several dozen gemstones.

Of course I immediately cleaned out the air ducts, all the way to the plenum, and dug up the ground near the entry - recovering another oz or so that I suspect was simply tracked out by the previous tenant on his shoes over the years.

I wonder if these guys have found a similar angle. Gold tends to accumulate in the lowest cracks.

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...

While definitely not in the video from TFA, some cities in this world host a domestic underground for homeless people and others who are outcast from society. The kind of humor you get from Futurama is a dark reality that not many would consider feasible in today's world..

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

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.

Sadly, no turtles were involved.

What is “Rk”?

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".

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

Possibly AI generated video?