A plumber in Ireland dug a tunnel from his bedroom to a
local pub, located 800 meters away from his home. It took him 15 years to get
it, and he came up with an idea after seeing the movie “The Shawshank
Redemption”.
The man was forced to dig the tunnel after extremely weird
snoring sounds from his wife. Patsy K. received a summons to the court after a
sewage pipe under his neighbor’s house blew. He told the court everything
related to his tunnel, as well as the reasons behind digging it.
My wife has a snoring problem. After watching the movie “The
Shawshank Redemption” in 1994, I decided to do something about it, so I started
digging a hole under the bed in the direction of a pub. I used all kinds of
tools, from spoons to tunnel drills that i managed to take to the hole while my
wife was in shopping.
In 2009, i managed to go to the other side, in the women’s
toilet and storage room-said Patsy.
For the past five years, Patsy went to the pub every night
at 11:00 pm and returned in one hour after midnight. His wife did not even
think what her husband was doing or going when she fell asleep.
“To be honest, I’m glad to be caught. My wife always felt
that i smelled of alcohol, and i answered that it was my natural scent. It was
just a matter of time when someone would catch me. The owner of the pub always
wondered how i always came from nowhere,”said Patsy
The tunnel was discovered after a sewage problem emerged
caused by a crack by Patsy accidentally struck while digging a
hole.
