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Drug smugglers build underground railway

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Old 9th December 2010, 00:33
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Drug smugglers build underground railway

Drug smugglers have built a mile long tunnel between the US and Mexico, complete with hand-powered railway...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11952794


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Old 9th December 2010, 21:21
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Bloody hell!!!
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Old 9th December 2010, 21:49
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I don't agree with what it was built for, but these drug dealers are brilliant engineers.
Furthermore, they can't have used explosives to dig the tunnel due to the noise it would make, so probably all done by hand. Absolutely amazing. There may well be more like this one, and perhaps not for drugs either, but for illegal immigrant passenger trains.
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Old 9th December 2010, 22:09
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The tunnellers would be just right for Crossrail!
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The end of the line for the wet backs
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If only in britain our railway workers worked like that! Those chaps are amazing engineers but they do deserve to be caught.
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