1/2 mile long tunnel from Mex to US found.

[HomeBrewerDude]

link

There are some pics on the link... pretty impressive tunnel!

 

[OdiN]

Tom Clancy..right again.

 

[gigapet]

probably one of hundreds. not gonna change a thing.

 

[aircooled]

amazing they can construct those without being noticed. I wonder how many more there are.

 

[purbeast0]

Yea I saw this on the news last night. They were talking about how it was the most advanced tunnel ever found. It had full lighting in there and also full drainage in case rain got down there. But yea, sucks for the drug runners

 

[yobarman]

Sorry I dont smoke that mexican shwag.

 

[Nikamichi]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=38&threadid=1778083&enterthread=y

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: aircooled
amazing they can construct those without being noticed. I wonder how many more there are.

Exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX

Originally posted by: aircooled
amazing they can construct those without being noticed. I wonder how many more there are.

Exactly what I was thinking.

There have been 20+ such tunnels (not as nice as this one) discovered and shut down in the last 5 years. (CNN)

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: Nikamichi
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=38&threadid=1778083&enterthread=y

you DO know thats a different tunnel, right?

 

[OrganizedChaos]

a drop in the bucket

 

[theMan]

aww man, thats 2 tons of weed i could have smoked!

 

[meltdown75]

that's actually really amazing. i wonder if they will destroy it, or if it could possibly serve some other purpose, perhaps even tourism.

i work & live near the Canada / US border. a few miles from here in another border town called LaSalle, they found tunnels that go under the Detroit River which were used by gangsters in the 1920s. Even Al Capone himself used them. they were used to run booze back and forth during the prohibition, among other things.

fantastic peices of history, as unlawful as they may be. they are unsafe - not nearly as sophisticated as the ones mentioned in the OP, but would still be really cool to see. they had secret entrances in the basements of various buildings. damn... now i'm pretty curious to see if they are still there.

edit: this is beside the point, but anyone that knows or has been to York University in Toronto might have heard of their underground tunnel system. All of the buildings at York are connected by these tunnels, which are used by maintenance workers. My friend from res and I got into them and did some exploring a couple times. Super, super cool. Actually IIRC AT member "Sabot" knows just the tunnels I am referring to

 

[Dualist]

Amazing, that tunnel could've gone unnoticed.

 

[meltdown75]

bump for interesting post of the day.

tunnels FTW