In 2015, a 10 metres (33 ft) tunnel was discovered in a Toronto park. After a few days of speculations in media, the use as a terrorist hideout being among them, young construction worker Elton McDonald came forward as its builder.[1] Asked for the purpose of his digging, he answered "Honestly, I loved it so much. I don't know why I loved it".[1]
In the 1960s, Irish civil engineer William Lyttle dug a wine cellar under his Hackney property. Having done so, he said that he had "found a taste for the thing" and continued digging for forty years.
10 Comments
Wren@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 218d
Yes! This is exactly the kind of post I needed today. Let's bring back tunnelling.
malle_yeno@pawb.social · 9 pts · 218d
No longer will I be scared of sinkholes, I will become the sinkhole maker
MintyFresh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 218d
I have become sinkhole, sinker of fears!
Klear@quokk.au · 4 pts · 218d
Get swallowed alive by the Earth? I sink not!
Boolean@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 218d
Guess this makes Colin Furze a hobby-tunneller too.
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 217d
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 217d
Sometimes making a big hole is fun
m0darn@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 217d
Hobby tunnelers agree it's a great escape
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 218d
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 217d
Hate when that happens...
sharkfucker420@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 218d