Huge underground drug tunnel with subterranean rail system discovered at US/Mexico border

Mexican army troops have discovered a massive drug tunnel beneath the San Diego-Tijuana border: a 1,800-foot passageway in an Otay Mesa warehouse, where U.S. authorities seized more than 20 tons of pot. "The passageway, equipped with lighting, ventilation and a rail system, is one of the few unearthed in recent years that appears to have been fully operational."

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lauriok

it saddens my heart always, the blessed herb reduced to a piece of war games.
Suds

Do you think they(the Man) knew about the tunnel but didn’t break the story until AFTER the Prop. 19 vote?
- stegodon
  
  donnie, you’re out of your element.
- Aloisius
  
  Do you think they(the Man) knew about the tunnel but didn’t break the story until AFTER the Prop. 19 vote?
  
  Yes and everyone is out to get you. The only thing that will save you is a tinfoil hat. Otherwise the aliens will read your mind and broadcast it on one of their alien comedy tv shows. The trust is out there.
  - querent
    
    You, friend, are quite clearly an illuminati agent attempting to spread the sentiment that mocking a “conspiracy theorist” is somehow poignant, original, or clever.
    
    But seriously, that does get old.
    
    Pretty epic operation. But fuck those people. Prop 19 will rise again.
  - querent
    
    Wait, wait…I got another one:
    
    If the aliens aren’t reading your thoughts, they must find what goes on in your head boring.
    
    hehe
ackpht

I know nuh-zhing! Nuh-zhing!
Anonymous

I, for one, welcome our new Mexican underlords.
- Anonymous
  
  *grin*
  Comment of the day!
ben

Just think, the state of California may have been able to sell 20tons of pot at retail prices… My calculations reveal this would net at least 30bajillion dollars.
Xenu

Cool, let’s extend the California high speed rail system to Mexico.
- Anonymous
  
  Hahah hell yeah
Anonymous

And just think, if prop 19 had passed this tunnel and many others like it would have been useless.

silver linings
Kaz

If only they had finished the dang fence … oh, wait, these were underground tunnels, you say?
Eliot

I don’t remember seeing that on the ballet yesterday “A NO vote on 19 means digging tunnels to Mexico will still be profitable.”
Cassie

Well, Nancy Botwin’s on the lam so she’s off the hook.
acb

“Goddamn Mexicans, coming here and building rail tunnels!”
- dculberson
  
  Dey took arr jerbs!!
nanuq

I guess there was more money using the tunnel to smuggle drugs than people. Illegal immigrants crossed the border the old fashioned way.
Anonymous

all the stoners were too stoned to vote,should have foreseen this.
next time hide the papers.so annoyed.
Antinous / Moderator

I think Vin Diesel and Paul Walker discovered this last year.
Anonymous

Pffft, Sgt Schultz knew about this tunnel all the time. He just got paid off in strudel too stay quiet.
mdh

Which direction was the pot going in?