When a factory issue Slip 'n' Slide just won't do the trick on those blazing hot days when you need to cool off, you have to use your brain and get creative. Like this group of friends who had the wherewithall to turn a storm drain into a quarter-mile, homemade water slide.

While the graffiti surrounding the area looks cool and everyone in the video is young, hot and fit, the water doesn't exactly look clean. But that doesn't stop these peeps from getting wet in the runoff.

Even a pup gets in on the fun!

We can't decide if this is genius or if it's...nah, we've decided. It's complete and total genius. Who cares if you get typhoid fever? You only live once.

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