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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
2. If they want to moonlight putting in the Manhattan-to-Kennedy subway link, too, that would be super.
I think this just disproved the idea that transportation infrastructure is something necessarily more efficiently provided by government.
I wonder what tipped the G off that they were building it. Anyone know?
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Nosy neighbors. But the official word is it was the Canadian border guards.
Imagine how much dirt they had to haul away, and how much wood they would have had to use.
There were unconfirmed reports that an audio tape of automobile repairs was used to mask the digging work inside the hut.
Canadian border officials were tipped off that something was being built in late 2003, and later received reports of wood being delivered to the Aldergrove property and debris being taken away.
The smugglers spent more than a year building the 360-foot (110-meter) tunnel that ran from a Quonset hut-style storage building in the rural Aldergrove neighborhood of Langley, British Columbia, to the living room of a home in Lynden, Washington, U.S. and Canadian investigators said.
"It was well built, probably one of the most sophisticated tunnels we've ever seen," said Rod Benson, an agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "There was a significant drug trafficking organization that was responsible for the construction."
Video supplied by investigators showed that the inside of the tunnel was lined with wood supports and concrete reinforced with steel. The builders had installed a small cart to allow them to move freight or people from one end to the other.
Investigators said it was the first time a drug smuggling tunnel had been found on the U.S.-Canada border, although more than 30 such tunnels have been uncovered on the border between Mexico and the United States.
Large quantities of potent "B.C. Bud" are smuggled to the United States each year from British Columbia, where illegal marijuana growing has been estimated to be a more than C$2 billion-a-year industry ($1.7 billion).
This is the quonset hut.
