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  • Why were five men disappearing into a Wantagh sewer at 1 a.m.?

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  • Sunday: Humid; a stray p.m. t-shower, with a high of 80 and low of 69 degrees.
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  • Tuesday: Humid; an afternoon t-storm, with a high of 82 and low of 71 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Authorities Investigating Group of Men Illegally Opening Wantagh Manhole Cover, Entering Sewer (longisland.com) — Authorities are looking into why five unidentified men pried open a manhole at Wantagh Avenue and Jerusalem Avenue around 1 a.m. Thursday and climbed into the sewer before disappearing. Nassau police and the Wantagh Fire Department responded but found no one underground, echoing similar mysterious sewer entries recently reported in New York City boroughs. Officials warn that entering manholes is illegal and extremely dangerous.
   

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Seaford

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A hole (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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