Тунельные крысы

kilativ — 02.11.2025

Tourists may have deserted the gambling capital of the world but the number of homeless has skyrocketed. Among them are the 'Mole People' who dwell in the decaying tunnels below the Las Vegas Strip.

A petite blonde-haired woman in a red sundress, who goes by Natasha, emerges from her home under the Sahara Hotel and Casino on a sweltering late September day.

She is just one of an estimated 1,500 people, many of whom are drug, alcohol or gambling addicts, who live underneath the glittering Strip in a vast 600-mile system of storm drain tunnels built in the early 1990s.

At first glance she could be mistaken for an average tourist in town to play blackjack or see a show.

It's not until she makes her way through the piles of garbage, including discarded shoes, a broken stroller, used syringes, old pizza boxes, dirty blankets, torn-open pillows, and leftover bags of junk food, and comes closer that you can see she's missing a front tooth and has sores all over her legs that are a telltale sign of fentanyl abuse.

Natasha, from Anchorage, Alaska, admits she's high but is also lucid enough to explain her situation and describe life in the tunnels because, she says, many who live alongside her cannot.

She has been underground on and off for two years.
Отсюда
Под Лас Вегасом есть система ливневых туннелей и там живет примерно полторы тысячи человек. Бездомные, которые проигрались в пыль и застряли в "городе грехов". Почти все алкоголики и/или наркоманы. Это только небольшая часть бездомных города (всего почти 8 тысяч). Лас Вегас теряет туристов, цены растут, ситуация хреновая.

Вот тут подробнее на английском.

https://www.latimes.com/world/la-na-tunnel22-2009dec22-story.html

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