[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."

[Stevvo]

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]

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

[pseudohadamard]

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

[thejazzman]

You failed to even mention the Turtles??