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."

Reporters in Sewers?

[Captain Large Face]

Must be some kind of annual conference, surely?

Is it just me...

[Anonymous Coward]

...or does this article stink!?

Bums?

[ShwAsasin]

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

Is this slashdot ?

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought I was reading some sort of geeks weblog, I must have typed the wrong URL.

The obvious joke...

[HiQ]

"Josh, slow down," I said. "I can't see shit."
Weren't they looking hard enough?

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.

interview with sewer dweller

[Anonymous Coward]

An interview with people living in a sewer?
Did they interview the entire Slashdot staff, or just Jon Katz and CmdrTaco?

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.

Re:Just bums?

[dcavens]

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

Actually, they did find some weird mutant fish:

(from the article) There were cockroaches everywhere and albino fish spawning in the water by the thousands; they looked like deformed goldfish. Some of them were six inches long and too big to fit completely in the water, unable to swim and flopping slowly through the murk.

Hard to know if they were plotting world domination. Maybe they just started planning..

It's Vegas...

[kpetruse]

...So there's gotta be some one-armed bandits down there.

Were the bums playing craps?

Man, I can't believe I said that...

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...

Expecting...

[No Such Agency]

I think they were expecting a bunch of dog-boy Recombinants, on the run from the sinister government agency which was breeding them to be super-soldiers. But all they found was a hot brunette chick with puffy lips and a barcode on her neck. She told them to pull their heads out of their asses, and do something useful, like write a halfways decent piece about the homeless.

Go Splinter

[2names]

Why, Mutant Ninja Turtles, of course!!!

Re:Heh?

[Bob McCown]

If they weren't expecting the bums, then who were they expecting???

The Spanish Inquisition?

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?"

Re:Looking for a troll

[ishark]

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

Actually, the sewers are underground, so it certainly qualifies as "-1".
What this shows is that reality works better than slashdot and trolls in there get modded to *at least* -2....

Re:Go Splinter

[Geek In Training]

Why, Mutant Ninja Turtles, of course!!!

Yeah, they would be 20-something ninja turles by now, eh?

Donatello has a problem with panty-sniffing, Leonardo can't find any eligible, like-mided conservative bachelorettes to settle down with, Rafael has plumped out a little like the Simpsons' Comic Book Guy, and Michelangelo just can't seem to stop smokin' the good stuff.

Just conjecture, though.

Re:caving

[speleo]

Shh... Don't let the secret out.

Really, it's spelunking folks. And be sure to take a ball of string to mark your path into the cave...

Vegas Sewer...

[InOverMyFeet]

Have you ever been to Circus Circus. Just as filthy but more accessable ;)

Hope they took a flashlight....

[docbrown42]

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

-Ed

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

Is it just me?

[slycer9]

Or is this a hint of further slumps in the IT industry headed our way? "This just in: Slashdot posts stories about housing opportunities for sacked IT folks..."