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Two Men Arrested in NYC’s Sewer Mystery Say They Were Looking for Gold. Seriously.

Two men arrested in NYC’s sewer mystery reportedly hunted for gold.

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Earlier this year, I wrote about the mysterious emergence of dozens of people from New York City manholes. Various security cameras caught the act, making it seem like we were capturing rare glimpses of the Ninja Turtles emerging from their sewer lair. Some months have passed, and NYC officials have made breakthroughs in the case, and I’m thankful for it because it has led to some of the funniest writing I’ve ever come across, as The Guardian tried to explain to its readers who the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are.

In a genuine attempt to clarify what is meant when people refer to the whole phenomenon as being an awful lot like witnessing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles emerge from the sewers (a comparison even I made in the opening sentence of my write-up some months ago), The Guardian........

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