An estimated 1000 people, including children, live in the storm drains under Las Vegas.
What a life. You live with the knowledge that if a storm kicks up and dumps a lot of rain in a short period of time, you will be killed in a rush of water.
Steven was forced into the tunnels three years ago after his heroin addiction led to him losing his job.
He says he is now clean and the pair survive by ‘credit hustling’ in the casinos, donning second-hand clothes to check the slot machines for chips accidently left behind.
Astonishingly, Steven claims he once found $997 (£609) on one machine.
Further into the maze are Amy and Junior who married in the Shalimar Chapel – one of Vegas’s most popular venues – before returning to the tunnels for their honeymoon.
They lost their home when they became addicted to drugs after the death of their son Brady at four months old.
‘I heard Las Vegas was a good place for jobs,’ Amy said. ‘But it was tough and we started living under the staircase outside the MGM casino.
‘Then we met a guy who lived in the tunnels. We’ve been down here ever since.’
Please tell me that MJA isn’t one of these people!?!
The rent is cheap, not much of a view though.
If people living in the tunnels of Las Vegas is a problem,
then it’s one of those problems that solve themselves over time.
Many years ago, I was an active caver, or spelunker. Then with some of my caving pals, I got into what we called sewerlunking (“stormdrainlunking” was more accurate but didn’t roll off the tongue very well). It was a mischievous adventure. The concept of actually living down there gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Proof demonstration that the obama recovery only worked for him living large
C.H.U.D.
its a shame that people look for joy or happiness in drugs never thinking about the out come later. My sister in law used to live in Vegas and told us that when the storms come the tunnels are no place to be-I hope these folks stay safe and one day get back on their feet….
“Hey, guys, whaddaya say we establish a cool makeshift home in this junkyard Automobile Compactor? They probably don’t turn it on that often.”
Id have a surfboard nearby.
Hmmm. Color me skeptical. When it rains those places have torrents of water rushing through them. If the people don’t get out their possessions would be swept away, for sure.
I have family out there and mom has been telling about what a wet winter it has been.
“before returning to the tunnels for their honeymoon.”
I hope they don;t have any children, no way to live.
At least you get to be ruled by that tragically hot werewolf, that all the super hot, super smart, too intimidating for human menschen , enlightened, progressive, wonderful women want to have litters with. Instead of that deplorable Republican!
This pisses me off royal. No wonder every time it rains the streets get flooded. All that shit of theirs clogs-up the storm drains so the water backs up.
This does clear-up the mystery of where all the “campers” along I-15 went.
I’m surprised some enterprising hookers haven’t opened up a business there and called it “The Tunnel of Love”.
😉
Must be reverse evolution as humankind supposedly started out as cave dwellers!
That’s sort of “on the grid” no?
” Please tell me that MJA isn’t one of these people!?! ”
Oh hayell naaaah. You have to be a special kind of nutty to do that shit.
Plus with all the flash flooding after it rains, the whole system is self-flushing. lol.
They really should try Searchlight, NV.
Harry Reid can set them up rent free in one of his whorehouses, as long as they clean the place once in a while.
Ick.
How about we help our fellow AMERICANS
before we import worthless muzzie scum ???
I just noticed that the linked article was from 2010! D’oh!