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

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/new-york-police-investigate-people-emerging-manholes

by worik • 2 months ago

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nerdsniper• 2 months ago

What is “Rk”?

analogpixel• 2 months ago

it's a special code for the sewer people, don't worry they understand it.

dsign• 2 months ago

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• 2 months ago

Sadly, no turtles were involved.

thebruce87m• 2 months ago

I’m not sure if you are referencing the article but a witness made the same link:

Speaking to NBC New York, witness Aki Jakupovic said: “Three random guys walking around in a strange suit, open the sewer, go in like Ninja Turtles.”

pogue• 2 months ago

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

yepyoukno• 2 months ago

Ugh! I was so going to say CHUDs!

7scan• 2 months ago

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."

Stevvo• 2 months ago

Two of the guys in the video exit the hole with a ~ 32"x16" metal sieve. They appear to be panning for gold in shit, not exploring.

tstrimple• 2 months ago

I’ve seen some videos of people who vacuum out sidewalk cracks in places like NYC. They find gold and jewels and such. Quite interesting what people can find. I’d bet the storm drain area has some nice spots for heavier material to accumulate.

https://youtu.be/TfrqUNFtM6A?si=vQr0Ofn0Ji3wFdZV

thejazzman• 2 months ago

You failed to even mention the Turtles??

pseudohadamard• 2 months ago

NY isn't anywhere near the Mexican border is it? How long is the longest known tunnel that's been uncovered?

iJohnDoe• 2 months ago

Possibly AI generated video?

arjie• 2 months ago

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• 2 months ago

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• 2 months ago

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

JoeMattie• 2 months ago

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.

x______________• 2 months ago

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..

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

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