The Most Incredible Drug Smuggling Tunnels Ever Discovered

[@clintonpangburn3698]

Simon, you look like the man you meet at the diner to receive the location of one of these tunnels.

[@kelseysvenson8544]

Bald at the top, hairy at the bottom. Looks like a prick in more than one sense.

[@VeteranManiac]

Real

[@shannonericksen1291]

CIA

[@hanisk2]

Nah he really doesn’t…but how would you guys know?😂

[@reggiep75]

He has a tunnel in the basement. It's opposite the writing den

[@simonmeadows7961]

How long is the tunnel between Simon's office and the basement where he keeps his writers?

[@supernoodles91]

More a basement with a padlocked heavy duty soundproofed steel door!

[@reggiep75]

The tunnel opposite the writing den? 🤔

[@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus]

Twice as long as the distance from the middle to the other end.

[@annaquay4183]

Well regardless, they're obviously not smuggling anything of note or quality.

[@annaquay4183]

@@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus Other end of what? Or do you mean 'twice the distance from the middle to an end'? Your statement implies that you've already mentioned a specific end. You didn't. Huh? Other end of what?

[@Scarodactyl]

I just read The Great Escape, and it was amazing what they could accomplish with zero budget, limited time, stolen materials and watchful guards.

[@ragtowne]

How about the wooden horse (a piece of exercise equipment) the prisoners used to conceal their escape attempt as well as used to conceal men within when taken to and from the exercise yard from underneath which they dug a tunnel!

[@Scarodactyl]

@ragtowne also amazing and certainly more successful but a bit less similar to what people did in this video. For one it would have to be a wooden mule.

[@BaronVonQuiply]

I have a copy of that book so old the price is printed as part of the cover art (50 cents)

[@Etymon-jt3zw]

There may not be a movie about the US Canadian tunnel. The trailer park Boys did an episode where they made a tunnel from Canada to the US it's pretty funny. The tunnel was only big enough for a model train to go through but they used it to trade marijuana for cigarettes until they got arrested.

[@cortos_9733]

I haven't seen that one yet. Sounds hilarious. I watch and episode every now and then.

[@jefesvintage]

The Swayze train.

[@reggiep75]

TPB 🤟

[@michaelo5665]

I could have sworn that I've watched a movie or at least a tv episode about the Canadian tunnel but maybe they were smuggling overland and I've just confused the two stories.

[@eraymonds]

Classic TPB!

[@nickhettelsater4769]

Obviously the host has not heard of Gaza, where over 300 miles of tunnels exist.

[@soakupthesunman]

Those tunnels were built for wars. As Simon says, wars are very expensive. The UN funded those tunnels while pretending the money was for "aid". Indeed. For war.

[@moogle68]

Simon pays his writers to research and write the scripts for these videos, he just reads them in a pleasant voice and as a familiar face. His writers generally do a good job of researching their topics, but if you think they missed something big in Gaza then maybe you should take it upon yourself to document the tunnels there as I'd be surprised if they missed what sounds like one of the worlds largest collections of illegal smuggling tunnels. Maybe they missed them because they are only known locally and haven't been documented. Are you sure that the tunnels you are talking about are specifically _illegal smuggling_ tunnels? That is the topic of this video, so if the tunnels you are thinking of were made legally, or professionally, then they would not be relevant to this video/list.

[@cannoncolossus2449]

When I was in Afghanistan, the Taliban built a tunnel into Sarposa prison in Kandahar. Over 400 prisoners escaped. Right under coalition forces noses. I also located a series of tunnels Taliban used to navigate through Kandahar undetected and had it destroyed. Just a few of my tunnel related stories.

[@amandab8433]

How fascinating. How did they finally come across the tunnels?

[@cannoncolossus2449]

@@amandab8433The prison tunnel was discovered after the guards woke up the next morning and saw all the prisoners escaped. In all likelihood, the guards were also involved in some manner. About the other tunnels, I can’t disclose too much about the specifics. Essentially, we collected intelligence through various sources. My job was to take this intelligence and analyze it. Through that, I was able to identify an active tunnel network. I created a targeting packet, a mission was put together, and our guys went out and destroyed the tunnels.

[@ChrisKatsu-]

Surprised the Canadians didn’t have a project manager and health and safety rep on site too before giving the tunnel the final sign off lol😂

[@milk-it]

I've dealt with project managers for Canadian mining companies and this statement couldn't be closer to the truth - much like in Australia! 🤣

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:55 - Chapter 1 - The US record holder 5:35 - Chapter 2 - The solitary canada/US drug tunnel 8:55 - Chapter 3 - India/bangladesh border tunnels 12:05 - Chapter 4 - Robin hood's bay smuggling network

[@apathydron]

To not phrase it like a psychopath, human history is people creating value and protecting that value from other people who would steal it.

[@supernoodles91]

Re the Canadian tunnel and the huge amount of spoil needed to be hidden brought to mind the classic xmas special of Porridge, when McKay bribes Fletcher with a half bottle of scotch as to where they hid the soil, he replies 'They dug another one an' put it in there....'😂😂 The late great Ronnie Barker!😂

[@BabyMakR]

Used to watch Porridge with dad all the time. Good memories.

[@Rick0430]

Robin Hood's not real? I bet you're gonna tell me Santa Claus isn't real too. Or even Simon Whistler is just an AI talking head.

[@TheGrinningViking]

One of the earliest references to Robin Hood as a historic figure was in a text called the Scotichronicon which I think was written in the 1500s. It said he was a rebel and a robber in an uprising in the 1200s, which was a ways before but not so long that the actual facts would pass out of oral tradition. So yeah he was probably real but not like the stories at all. Simon is pretty accurate but only as much as Wikipedia, give or take.

[@EuTrabalhoParaSagres510]

​@@TheGrinningViking Pretty sure the stories originated at least by the 14th century. And there were many,any outlaws with similar lives and even names. One was convicted poacher and outlaw named Robyn of the Hood. Then they all started naming themselves that.

[@davemeads859]

The last one is definitely true

[@SMALLAXE.]

Then there was the one guy working alone who dug a huge tunnel out of his prison with a tiny rock hammer working tirelessly day after day and he hid the entrance behind a movie poster

[@steveskouson9620]

Ahh, Shawshank. Great movie! steve

[@brittanynye4268]

The entrance was hidden behind a pinup of Rita Hayworth, not a movie poster.

[@SMALLAXE.]

@@brittanynye4268 yep wasn't sure how to spell her name you got me nice catch

[@baggieknight8411]

@@SMALLAXE. The movie was called Shashank redemption

[@SmithsMobile]

Genius idea to use millions of angry bee's to keep smugglers away, what could possibly go wrong 😂

[@airgunningyup]

at the southern border im betting there are far longer tunnels making the locations further from the border and therefore harder to find.

[@gabbyn978]

They all have to cross the border, which means you only have to travel along that same border and use echolocation or radar, and they will turn up. The bigger challenge is the total length of this border. Not every tunnel is dug near Tijuana.

[@thedudeimbibes46]

I once saw in San Ysidro, San Diego a dropped off semi-trailer fell half into a drug tunnel when the parking lot collapsed and that was about a quarter mile from border. As I lived/worked near the border I saw a lot of things that can only be explained by a hefty percentage of border patrol/customs are getting rich from cartel money. Plenty of import/export companies have been popped with tunnels into their warehouses.

[@EuTrabalhoParaSagres510]

​@@thedudeimbibes46 I believe it

[@Erevos85]

The funny thing about the US-Canada tunnel is that for many miles the only thing separating the two countries is a line painted on the ground

[@DuncaR]

Honestly felt like a spoof when Simon started talking about attack Bees...

[@carlmcgregor2707]

If USA decriminalised drugs, imagine how much tax money they could get, the lack of money spent on prisons from reduced 'criminals' and the huge amount of income taken away from cartels. Its a win win for USA.

[@bactanite]

Many states have legalized marijuana, yet it continues to be smuggled across the border.

[@benjammin1212]

@@bactanite Because the government tax the shops and growers which means its cheaper to buy on the streets

[@benjammin1212]

Decriminalising wouldn't work, it needs the government to allow dispensaries to sell a product cheaper than it is available on the streets, that's the only way to stop street dealers and cartels, this will never happen as governments want their tax..

[@tthappyrock368]

We tried that here in Oregon but the healthcare -- especially mental healthcare infrastructure wasn't enough to adequately address the needs of addicts to help them work through their addictions. Legalizing marijuana on the other hand has been a good thing and brings in an average of $170 million in tax revenue per year to the state.

[@muffinman3923]

​@@bactaniteseizures at the border for cannabis are down 98% since 2012

[@garyhardman7]

I'm going to Whitby in a couple of weeks and had already planned to visit Robin hoods bay.. I didn't know about all this stuff thou. So will definitely be checking out the smuggling tour. Nice info cheers

[@xrmad]

Rumour has it Colin Furze has been contracted to build the next record holding tunnel

[@jamesallred460]

It's gonna start at my house, but shhhhh, don't tell anyone.

[@jaygray7102]

I grew up in Langley, BC over 60 yrs ago. This doesn't surprise me. A less obvious border route might be to Alaska from China, N. Korea, Russia...not far to a send submersible. How profitable is human cargo?

[@drgunnwilliams8239]

There are many smuggling tunnels under Detroit River between Windsor Ontario and Detroit Michigan. Similarly the same holds true of Niagara Falls Ontario and Niagara New York state. Unlike one in your video these where used in period of US prohibition in 1930s. Sleeman's Breweries advertises frequently regarding their smuggling past. Just a different drug - alcohol.😂❤

[@skylineXpert]

at least the smuggling tunnels smuggling germans from east to the west are more noble.

[@keenanarthur8381]

From the perspective of someone who got hooked on the needle in high school after almost dying from a severe illness and being given a lot of IV fentanyl by doctors, the only thing worse than drug smugglers is cops who treat the people the dealers have on their hook like shit rather than like sick people who need help. 13 years clean thanks to lots of yoga and meditation and such, though some of my old friends died from OD's and I almost did a few times. I left the Detroit area in 2011, which was getting a lot of heroin from Canada across the river. I would imagine from Afghanistan, different quality from Mexican stuff from what I understand.

[@heavenkey7754]

Love your videos, very interesting and fun to watch🎉

[@maxwirt921]

“What are you gonna do!? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths that when they bark they shoot bees at you?” -Homer Simpson.

[@FlyWithFitz81]

How does one get one of these tunnels? Hypothetically.

[@skyden24195]

Dig-Dug. 😉

[@supernoodles91]

Would say call Werner Ziegler but he's dead, maybe the A-Team?

[@adamdaley8090]

Aside from creating one?

[@reggiep75]

Effort. You enlist diggers or enslave people to dig for you.

[@zakburnett6690]

He says flying a plane in his PFP don't pretend we don't know what you do with that plane 😂😂

[@charlesurrea1451]

This tunneling activity has prompted the US to routinely sweep the Border with magnetometers and install geophones.

[@ZomBeeNature]

I was surprised they could successfully tunnel thru sand for such a long way between Mexico and US. 😮

[@BaronVonQuiply]

Thanks S1m 0n3, I'm finding this very helpful in my current endeavor, particularly since I do not live anywhere near a border so it's gotta be a long one

[@Pomshka]

I'm so glad you featured RobinHoods Bay!!!

[@charlesvandenreek5479]

Give Simon his own Netflix series!

[@Anstieguber]

I might actually use netflix if they did that.

[@supernoodles91]

El Chapo used Werner Ziegler and his 'boys' to create the tunnel, it's how Gustavo Fring leared of his skills!

[@jamesallred460]

Oh man, I can't believe Simon hadn't made this video until now. Awesome topic!

[@tiemenvanderbijl785]

@13:24 NO!!! what are you doing SIMON! you shattered my view on this world.

[@ChainsawFPV]

It's one thing to sit their and tell stories from others, its another thing entirely to do border guard yourself. I have. The US-Mexico border with the Army in the 90's. And NO ONE made it over............... Those are the stories you will never hear about......

[@jacobstewart4013]

portland oregon has the shanghai tunnels were back in the day the would kidnap drunk sailors and force them onto ships as laborers or face death.

[@dragonsdynamite6403]

At the start, the top of that fence is the wrong way round 😂

[@busterbeagle2167]

Tijuana, Arizona, and Canada do not end in the letter R.

[@Zeppathy]

You must not know about the hidden R at the end. Tijuaner, Arazoner, and Canader. : )

[@FusionDeveloper]

So much for Trumps wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for. 😂😂😂

[@CharIie83]

so many lives ending up in misery from this

[@halporter9]

Colonial New York had a smugglers tunnel around 155 St on west side by the Hudson. Mid late 18th century near where Aububon later had his home and not far from Aaron Burr’s. Also early 19th Century.

[@HellwigReau]

It reflects the deep dilemma of American social governance. As early as the 1970s, the U.S. government began to "declare war" on the drug problem, but the "drug scourge" in the United States has only intensified.

[@EuTrabalhoParaSagres510]

Wow, all i gotta say, is Robin Hood's Bay 😍

[@louie480]

Just make longer videos on one channel 😂you got this bro

[@NatesRandomVideo]

The algorithm doesn’t reward that.

[@TuthillKaperonis]

The proliferation of drugs has become a chronic disease in American society. Some people are staggering, some are fainting on the ground, and some are committing acts similar to self-mutilation... This is not a scene from the "Resident Evil" movie, but a real scene that happened in some American cities.

[@larry-om9tg]

They probably knew right away about that tunnel and they figured let them wear themselves out.

[@catatonicbug7522]

I've seen documentaries about the bee borders, but they were for warding off elephants with bad tempers. Elephants hate bees!

[@GrahamPointer1972]

Shame that the US/Canada one was destroyed. Both countries could have kept it and put passport control, immigration etc at their respective ends, making it an official and unique crossing.

[@victordauphin2949]

There was another drug smuggling tunnel between Canada and the US. 6 Canadians were arrested after using a model train stolen from Patrick Swayze to smuggle a bunch of marijuana through a tunnel into Maine. No Marijuana was seized as the drug deal had already been done when police arrived.

[@soakupthesunman]

Yes, bubbles and Ricky got away clean

[@baggieknight8411]

Lol Whitby and Scarborough are nowhere close to each other..... Well at least the Whitby and Scarborough in Canada ...

[@halporter9]

Canada. There were lots of stories during Prohibition, roughly 1921 to 1934, there were stories, probably fables of c Canada/US tunnels. My favorite was the story of a beer pipeline under the border. I do know that Joseph Kennedy multiplied his fortune by having everything set up, paperwork, customs, taxes, to import vast quantities of liquor the second that Prohibition ended. There were rumors about the political connections required to be that light on his feet.

[@keithplumley2054]

Like introducing "warrior bees" has gone well in the past. 😂

[@soakupthesunman]

SI.

[@staceyn2541]

The Canadian story has kept me laughing for way too long.

[@sociopathicpixel9416]

Im missing the tunnels between east and west germany, maybe a special video about "die unterwelten"?

[@elusiveDEVIANT]

Still not found mine. Oh, and to deal with the bees, just get a bee suit or use bee predator pheromones.

[@CrvrMb]

8:48 there needs to be a Casual Criminalist about it perhaps?

[@GamidRusiskyKatsapovitcvh]

The bees idea is stilly, just wear a bee suit, put it on in a hollow out in the tunnel before you exit.

[@aartimahajan7317]

Simon twice referred BSF as BSG in the video, indian border gaurd corps is BSF or Border Security Force.

[@Knsy]

790m, (2,600 ft (4,300 crawls))

[@se7enity648]

Sink holes are caused by natural earth movement. Crown holes are caused by mining or tunnels.

[@Pvosinc]

ahh back to winter Ai simon as opposed to the the recent summer T shirt simon - btw AI simon brown stain cream isn't a good shade for summer t shirts

[@OneOfThePetes]

Bet you can still get cheap drugs there.

[@jonathanray83]

Robin Hood Bay Heck Yeah Man

[@ryanroberts1104]

Why do they need a tunnel to go to Canada?! I accidentally invaded Canada on a boat one time...I didn't know I needed uhh...paperwork and shit. It was dark and the "required" reporting to customs immediately is on the honor system.

[@davidfuller2261]

the BEE SG

[@rafalganowicz1939]

Vlad had a good idea to keep unwanted trespassers at bay.

[@jakobrebeki]

What about the Tunnels between Eygpt and the West bank?....

[@OmniAxisZero]

The excess soil can be a problem with these operations especially when it comes to grow ops. A person covering their tracks "definitly not me" might, idk... donate good fresh soil to comunity gardens and when there might be more than they need. Start garden programs for the school districts and donate all the soil... maybe in trade for their compost... for as long as you may have ops going for... making you a low key good semeritan amongst the comunity that no one would suspect... Again for the record... definitly never did this.😁😅

[@multiyapples]

I thought they’re would be more Tunnels going to the USA from Canada then there actually are.

[@mikeperreault8939]

Nice video. No need to SAY out loud the meters and feet, if you're going to show it on the screen also.

[@herethererainbows]

Surprised there wasn't on the Canadian American border during prohibition

[@dennisfranzen8684]

sorry to say you totally missed out on the Chicago underground tunnel system. used in the past for smuggling.

[@Crioten]

Starfishes love tunnels

[@546268]

No Mention of the great escape?

[@davidraborn3654]

Genetic altered Bees, what could go wrong.

[@-Fritz-]

Trump: _"We're going to build a wall, and Mexico is going to pay for it."_ Mexico: _"We've already built our tunnels, and America has already paid for them."_

[@stevesmith3556]

Smuggling weed INTO Washington😂😅😂😅😂

[@CaptainMarvelsSon]

Thank you, Canada, for not being full of cartels and drug smugglers. The U.S. has enough problems dealing with our southern neighbors as it is.

[@kaiyack]

They just swim it across on the lakes.

[@elliotsmith9812]

Sounds like the South of Italy is loaded with smugglers tunnels.

[@Timfamy]

That weed looks real bad 😢

[@billruss6704]

Why does it need to be big enough for a person? Seems like a 2 or 3 inch diameter pipe would work just fine.

[@danielpickett8560]

OH-TIE MAY-SA

[@timothylyons5686]

Guess who's been reading the Great Escape?????

[@cia4kids]

These tunnels are great for human trafficking too.

[@Mayor_Of_Eureka17]

The cat and mouse game continues...

[@mzshastalibra4705]

*cough cough* eh hem.... SECRET TUNNNNNNNEL. SECRET TUNNNEELLLLLL

[@danlittle519]

Do a good video you do

[@Nathan-vq9ch]

BC bud Is most highly highly high Now they sell seeds called tunnel vision

[@iRunKids]

thank goodness they seized all that marijuana

[@soakupthesunman]

They just pretend they found nothing. 😂

[@stefanschleps8758]

And how will drugs be smuggled to the Moon? Cause thats next!

[@lylematmos6105]

god bless these people. its the underground railroad but for anyone who wants to feel good :)

[@Pizza-gb1ch]

Build a wall they said. That'll keep them out. 💁

[@zebjensen4251]

Actually robin hopd may have actually been a real person. Yhough the stories and movies are several times removed from them. And the earliest reference is to a person known as ye old ronin hode or hood in modern terms.

[@skyden24195]

First of all, have to ask, who's dumb enough to feel it necessary to smuggle marijuana into California? A state where marijuana is legal to grow, transport, sell, and consume. (Same goes for Washington State.) Second, since the name "Robin Hood" has actually been recognized as an alias or otherwise a description title for any person(s) who follow the "Robin Hood" type of "criminal" endeavors, i.e., "rob from the rich to feed the poor," then Robin Hood is very much a real person, historically and even currently. (Semantics. Yeah, I know.)

[@davidmoak1219]

Bruh there's still absolute idiots paying for and selling ounces of marijuana for 200+-320+, street prices when it was illegal. Some moron tried to sell me a 200 dollar ounce of 'super dank' that's available in every store around here for 35 bucks an ounce. Only marijuana tourists are dumb enough to think ANY ounce is worth more than 60 bucks. They dunno what good pot is and they are full of themselves. Of course there's going to be people who think their shitty pot is so good that someone wants to buy their shitty street schwag they think is worth 200+ lmao.

[@WilliamHaisch]

FREEDOM 35! 😂

[@mkasser]

how are the Gaza smuggling tunnels not on this list?

[@jrmckim]

They had drug or medication smuggling?

[@carinhall4508]

How is it smuggling when it's your own land?

[@paulpauba1094]

​@jrmckim they are smuggling weapons, terrorists, and hostages...

[@timothygreer188]

Because they aren't used to smuggle drugs.

[@Jameson1776]

@@carinhall4508because they’re used to smuggle weapons,terrorists and hide supplies meant for civilians. I’d say they are pretty important especially when they build them under hospitals,schools and other civilian areas. Then used to commit terrorism.

[@chiphausl]

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[@drorbenami4827]

Haven't been to Gaza, have you Simon ?

[@ThEnlightnd1]

Umm …wall? ;-)