A “professionally constructed” tunnel leading nearly 100 yards from an abandoned house in the Northwest Washington town of Lynden to a greenhouse just beyond the U.S.-Canadian border was shut down yesterday before it could be used. (Seattle Times) More below:
This IS an open thread, but I thought you’d get a kick out of this at the end of the Seattle Times story:
Such tunnels aren’t uncommon in U.S. border towns.
In March, U.S. officials found a tunnel that had been dug from a middle-class San Diego-area neighborhood to an upscale residence in Mexico. Investigators called the 200-yard-long tunnel the most sophisticated they have seen along the California-Mexico border.
Investigators used a machine that can “see” underground, a video-equipped robot, a drug-sniffing dog and an air horn to find it.
That tunnel was 3 feet wide and 5 feet high with a concrete floor. It had wood-beam supports, fiberglass walls, ventilation, video security and groundwater-removal systems. Several altars with flowers and pictures of saints also were found inside.