for money, in order to help McDonald pay an $800 fine levied by the city and to replace the

cost of the tools he borrowed and lost.

McDonald, a construction worker, lives close to where he tunnelled a nearly 10-metre-long
underground chamber.
He described himself to the Sun as the "main digger" for the tunnel.
The paper quotes McDonald as saying it took about five months to build the bunker and that
he had planned to add a few more rooms and put in a TV. He reportedly told the Sun the
chamber had been there more than two years when police were alerted to its presence in
January.
Toronto police said Monday that two men built the tunnel as a place to "hang out" and that no
criminal charges would be laid. The discovery was announced a week earlier, prompting
widespread speculation about the chamber's origin and purpose.