Tunnel Under Broadway

Okay, that tunnel is actually the R line, but to its credit, they are both long, underneath some tough terrain, and usually occupied by strange individuals who may or may not be transporting all sorts of illegal, unethical or tasty substances; especially the dude I saw last night.

The tunnel, found this week by US Immigration Officials, linked a warehouse near the Tijuana airport, a city known for Tequila and donkey-women love affairs, to another just outside the Californian city of Otay Mesa, which I know nothing about except what their website says: Otay Mesa, a community within the City of San Diego, located east of I-805 and South of Chula Vista, was developed as an industrial area in 1985 because of the creation of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. After seventeen years, Otay Mesa has become California's largest commercial land border port and one of the busiest commercial land border crossings in the United States. Otay Mesa is home to the first Dedicated Commuter Lane, an airport, large parcels of value priced industrial land and numerous economic development incentives programs such as the State Enterprise Zone and the Foreign Trade Zone, both designed to induce companies to locate in the region.

The tunnel was used for transporting both illegal immigrants and illegal narcotics into the US, but never at the same time due to the landlord’s, one Stanley Roper, policy on that sort of thing. Mr. Roper was already under investigation by California police for the unsanctioned rental of rooms to two women and one man simultaneously.

While nearly one kilometer in length, the tunnel is the longest ever found in this sort of situation, if you don’t count the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, the McDonald’s cross-country burger tunnel and the Christ of Jesus-Christ of Later Day Saints Get Up by Going Down Faithful Transportation System. Unlike these systems, the Mexican tunnel had a ventilation system, electricity, HBO-on-Demand and a cement lined floor. US Officials are uncertain as to the tunnel’s origin or length of use, they did release a statement: “We believe the tunnel to be in use for more than 3 days and suspect its primary users were probably South American in decent, possibly Spanish speaking, and wanted to enter the US in a clandestine manner, otherwise no comment.”

Wisdom of the Day: You have a greater chance of getting what you don’t expect rather than what you want.