Hi again Roger, Your information about the tunnel in your neighborhood is extraordinary, at least for me; and I will tell you why. Yesterday as I read it I was left with an inkling that there was more to it than just being interesting, but only today, when I had a flash back of a science fiction story that I read some thirty years ago in an antology, was I able to tell what it was. I don't remember the author, but it certainly was a master tale about a world in the future where the main problem was overpopulation. A man was driving a car with his wife on his side and as they approached a tunnel that they had to cross every day to get to their home, he began to worry about his parents who followed in another car behind theirs. He was afraid that if not himself and his wife, his parents might not get through the tunnel before it shut its gates... trapping them inside to be disposed of by gas. The tension mounted, explanations were given to the reader through the man, who ruminated how overpopulation had grown so uncontrolable that a "small" quota of people - as many of them as would chance to get trapped in the tunnel - had to be killed everyday... In the last second, they were able to make it one more time to the other side. However, his parents had not been as fortunate as they themselves had been - in a perverted way, they had been literally "abducted" - and it was little consolation that they were older and no longer useful to society, etcetera. When I first read it, I very much hoped it would not be premonitory... that it was only a tale. I sincerely expect that it will remain a tale forever. Miguel
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