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."

Heh?

[Jedi Alec]

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

So what are you trying to say, bums aren't real people?

Don't you think...

[Anonymous Coward]

...giving detailed information on how to access one of the US's biggest cities' underground sewer network is a bit of a security risk in the current climate?

Why is this news Micheal ?

[cOdEgUru]

I read the whole thing when I woke up, thinking there might be some reason to why you decide to post it.

Are the reporter guys your friends ? Or is the guy who originally posted the story your friend ?

I mean, the whole thing is a little interesting, told in the perspective of two reporters, alternately, but when you half expect them to find an ogre or a troll, finding bums just isnt enough.

Thats just my opinion.

Interesting reminder

[Zeddicus_Z]

While not exactly a tech story, the artice is an interesting reminder (imho) about what can happen in our society. Remember the dot-com boom? Remeber the crash? Know anyone who lost their job and *still* hasn't found another? Just because we work in a (usually) highly-paid industry, doesn't mean we're any more immune from total poverty then John Q. Citizen labourer.

Living in the tunnels is what some people are reduced to, when they suddenly find they've got no more money left to pay the rent or the electricity or the gas bills. Perhaps those of you making jokes about the differences between bums and people may not be so high and haughty if you lose your job and you're down there yourself in six months time.

Re:Interesting, but...

[Proteus Child]

Exploring tunnels, rooftops, et al has been a traditional pastime at many colleges with a strong geek culture.. MIT; CMU; probably RIT (only visited there)...

Re:caving

[sabinm]

Right, because saying you're a caver is really going to save you when you fall to your death because you decided to take a picutre standing on one leg on a "really scary precipice"

I agree that there a lot of areas in this world where there are new entrants into the field. However, I think it's counterproductive to oust them from the inner circle because of a word. This isn't high school.

It probably would help more to take one of these spelunkers on a caving adventure and educate them, than to make fun of them when they're lost and hysterical.

Species

[gerf]

It does make you wonder at how our sewers and cities are affecting how animals evolve. crayfish and regular fish adapting to those tunnels, living with the chemicals and shit we put down there, all has to affect their 'natural selection' to an extent. i wouldn't be surprised if some animal, raccoon perhaps, would evolve to only live on those kinds of animals, and we'd have an entire ecosystem. perhaps with bums at the top, eating the 'coons? who knows!