The Toronto Tunnel Speculation Thread

[Malthus]

Today's letters to the Editor in the Globe were pretty funny. I particularly liked the Murdoch one:

Re Secret York U Bunker Puzzles Police (Feb. 25): Nefarious, sinister, ominous? Or possibly just the work of some who are trying to circumvent Toronto's real estate prices and winter temperatures?

Helen Godfrey, Toronto

.........

Maybe it's just a place where Leafs fans can hide rather than face yet-another disappointing season.

Gilles Coughlan, Ottawa

.........

Detective William Murdoch would've told you a century ago that the tunnel is the work of either scalawags or ne'er-do-wells. Round them all up for questioning, he'd have said: They may have been aided and abetted by riff-raff hell bent on skulduggery.

But Constable George Crabtree would have suspected those albino mole-people: Dust everything for finger marks with fine powdered sugar if you can locate some.

Brian Beckett, Nepean, Ont.

.........

It's fairly easy to explain Toronto's mystery hole. Those smart students were simply digging toward the Earth's core – where it's apparently around 6,000 C – to get warm. And if they'd asked me along, I'd have joined them.

Gordon S. Findlay, Toronto

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/letters/feb-26-cause-to-celebrate-and-other-letters-to-the-editor/article23206955/

[Siege]

So, the cops found out that someone - more likely, several someones - had built a mysterious tunnel on some wasteland near York University.

This was no small undertaking - there was a generator for an electric light system, and it was shored up with wooden supports. Looks to have been dug by hand.

So far, no clue as to what it was for. It did not lead anywhere.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/02/24/york-u-tunnel-yields-eerie-clues.html

Palestinians.

[Valmy]

They do like tunnels don't they?

[grumbler]

Bah.  The police are just behind the times.  I found that tunnel in Fallout 3 seven years ago.  It's not supposed to go anywhere - it just contained a leveled supermutant (who must have been killed by someone else at least seven days before the cops found the tunnel, because the body is gone).  The lack of gore bags is a bit puzzling, I will admit.

[lustindarkness]

Why not leave a few hidden game cameras and shut up about it for a few months? Now the tunnel digger(s) will not show up again. Would have been funny to see images of Gimly showing up.

[grumbler]

Why not leave a few hidden game cameras and shut up about it for a few months? Now the tunnel digger(s) will not show up again. Would have been funny to see images of Gimly Gimlet, son of Groin, showing up.

FTFY

[lustindarkness]

Interesting, Gimlet it is then.

[crazy canuck]

Why not leave a few hidden game cameras and shut up about it for a few months? Now the tunnel digger(s) will not show up again. Would have been funny to see images of Gimly showing up.

The police waited a number of months before going public to see if they could find out the who and why.  When they found no evidence they decided to appeal to the public for clues.

[Monoriu]

Back in the days when I played Everquest, I had multiple characters, and one problem was to switch stuff between characters.  Of course, I trusted no one, not even my guildmates who adventured with me every night.  So I found a really quiet corner in Qeynos (Sony EQ backwards), basically the middle of a maze inside a big building, and dropped stuff there for another character to pick up. 

Maybe the tunnel is for someone who have found a way to log on with another character 

[Razgovory]

I'm beginning to think Grumbler is losing his mind.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm beginning to think Grumbler is losing his mind.

Bullshit.  He knows exactly where it is.

[grumbler]

I'm beginning to think Grumbler is losing his mind.

Bullshit.  He knows exactly where it is.

In this case, it's in Bored of the Rings.  Not that I'd expect to find a copy of that work in Raz's family's basement.

[CountDeMoney]

In this case, it's in Bored of the Rings.  Not that I'd expect to find a copy of that work in Raz's family's basement.

My yellowed and well-thumbed 1st edition copy is tucked away safely in storage. Tim Benzedrine FTW. 

[grumbler]

In this case, it's in Bored of the Rings.  Not that I'd expect to find a copy of that work in Raz's family's basement.

My yellowed and well-thumbed 1st edition copy is tucked away safely in storage. Tim Benzedrine FTW. 

This Ring and no other
was made by the elves
who'd pawn their own mother
to own it themselves.

[Malthus]

Awesome. The answer was: hosers burrowing to make a play fort. 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-tunnel-dug-by-2-men-as-man-cave-police-say-1.2978109