Its only design flaw is it didn't take into consideration humans have arms and legs.

Two girls on poles. I wonder what @gwiz665 was searching for when he found this?

Add a ladder to that and you'd shave off at least 10 seconds.

Abolish Nafta and we can demilitarize our border. We caused Mexico to fail...we just have to help them fix it.

2 girls 1 pole wasn't on youtube and knowing sifters, there would be much butthurt if I sifted it.
>> ^blankfist:

Two girls on poles. I wonder what @gwiz665 was searching for when he found this?

now the government just needs to go back and lubricate the poles.

its looks like they're actually able to get their knees/legs lodge between the posts to help hold their weight as they climb.

Instead, they should hold a giant obstacle course ala Ninja Warrior, then only the best of the best would become American citizens.

2 girls 1 fence

Mexican Gladiators - winner gets an american citizenship.
>> ^Tymbrwulf:

Instead, they should hold a giant obstacle course ala Ninja Warrior, then only the best of the best would become American citizens.

Wow they touched the top, now flip over the top and descend elegantly without falling 15ft in the dark onto your head.

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>> ^Mcboinkens:
>> ^deathcow:
Wow they touched the top, now flip over the top and descend elegantly without falling 15ft in the dark onto your head.

That's actually the easy part. Climbing up requires upper body strength. Sliding down requires not letting go of a pole as gravity does its work.
The whole fence plan was a joke, I can't believe they actually went through with it. If you are going to build a fence, at least put razor wire at the top.


Two 10 ft tall chain link fences 10 feet apart with concertina wire filling in between probably would be a fraction of the cost, and be 3000x more effective.

yea but try doing that with a wet back...

sorry, let me class that up for you guys.

yea but try doing that with a moist posterior thorax

Dat ass.

*quality

BIG THANKS to all the people who scream about "SECURE OUR BOARDER!!! THEY TEK ER JOBSS!!"

Obviously money well spent to shut you morons up.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by JiggaJonson.

This was about building fences -- not securing borders... Just as much of the construction projects are about digging ditches, not building anything.

M'eh. To me this simply highlights the pointlessness of addressing a serious issue with half-measures.

Mexico has proven that it is either not capable or interested in controlling its citizens. In fact, if anything, they are complicit in shoving illegals across the border. We have to treat them like 'the enemy' in regards to this issue. They are not interested in the sovreignty of U.S. borders. Quite the opposite.

"Good fences make good neighbors" said the poet. True that. The U.S. has been piddling around with pathetic walls that are little more than speed bumps. It is time to take the kid gloves off and build the Panama Canal 2.0 on our southern border. If we can dig through a freaking country, then we can dig a trench deep enough to seal our border properly.

Start in Arizona, and go west & east. Each state mans the wall with its own national guard. It'll take time, but eventually it will be finished and then the flood of illegals becomes a tiny trickle of student visas and Canadian fruit runners.

Who's fucking Idea was this? To put up a shitty as fence?

Someone put up a shit ton of money for this and it was poorly designed shit.

@NordlichReiter that would be the American Taxpayer.

I suspect someone in the metal tube industry has links to a local politician.

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

It is time to take the kid gloves off and build the Panama Canal 2.0 on our southern border.


Wow.. you are so ungodly like stupid. Clearly you don't stop to think things out.

Even if you could "dig a trench deep enough" WHICH YOU FUCKING COULDN'T...

There's this thing called Rain.. which likes to fill up big empty holes in the earth.

:: Atomic facepalm :: Do you even know where the term Wetback comes from?!

Not to mention..

It would take would take nearly 2.1 MILLION National Guardsmen
[standing shoulder to shoulder] on duty 24 hours 365 days a year to "properly seal" the border.

So effectively 4.2 to 8.4 million guardsmen.. and all funded by tax dollars! yay!

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Your delusional Conserva-topia aside tho..

The majority of illegal aliens cross the border inside of 18 wheelers.

And yes, the border guards are bribed just as easily as all the politicians we rag on.

So next time, could you please think thru your crazy Acme cartoon plans before you go spouting off:

"Dude guys! We can totally just build a ladder to the mooooon.. and put all the brown icky people up there!"
-_-

There's this thing called Rain.. which likes to fill up big empty holes in the earth.

I'll give you a few seconds - well - better make that a few minutes - to wipe the rabid foam from your mouth so you can think again, which you obviously didn't bother doing previously.

Look at the Panama canal. No - really - look at it. Look at the pictures they took while they were building it. There are places they trenched over 20 meters deep and wide in dirt and rock. Dig a huge trench like that, and put a 20ft wall with razor-wire on the other side.

Guardsmen do things called "patrols". I know perhaps you may not have heard of these complex military manuevers - being a neolib and all - but rest assured they happen. They are efficient things, where a single soldier or a small group conducts a "patrol" over a large area and if they find unusual activity they do another brilliant thing called "reporting". At that point the unit can call for an exotic thing called "reinforcements". Again - I know I'm getting really technical, but try to keep up. Oh - and to really blow your mind - there are these other things called "sensors" and "cameras" which make very small numbers of people able to monitor extremely large areas. Really wild stuff.

And there's no need for you to flash your racism against brown skin here. No one was doing that until you started in on it. When will neolibs stop judging people by the color of their skin, and start judging based on the content of character? It's a distant dream - I know - but I still hope for it. Racism is such an ugly thing. It is truly sad to see the neolib left perpetuate it so freely.

Right, so we're going to dig a 20 meter deep trench 1969 miles long, and fill it with water, and then line it with razor wire, and then have the national guard patrolling it.

TWO THOUSAND MILES of border. That's a fantastic idea. I'm sure that would be very cost efficient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_%E2%80%93_United_States_border

The current Panama Canal by comparison is 77 km (48 mi) long
(the US/Mexico border is (3,138 km or 1,950 miles)

The estimated cost for the new Panama Canal (announced in July 2009 by the Belgian dredging company Jan De Nul) is approx 100 million dollars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_canal

Some quick Math:
$100,000,000 div by 77km is $1,298,701.30 per km
$1,298,701.30 x 3,138km equals $4,075,324,679.40
and of course, add inflation over the 10 years or so it would take plus unseen overtures and you've got a 5-7 billion dollar project.

PS - just let me know if my math is faulty, although I'd like to be, I'm not a mathematician

Also: How much money does the US spend on it's War Machine?
Click here to find out: http://costofwar.com/en/

Edit: I'm not saying to build it, I'm just quoting the numbers

I wonder how long it'll take for an enterprising Mexican to mount a staircase on a 4x4, with one of them explosive chutes they use to evacuate people from aircraft mounted on top. We've been building such siege engines to scale larger walls for thousands of years.

Staircar!>> ^ryanbennitt:

I wonder how long it'll take for an enterprising Mexican to mount a staircase on a 4x4, with one of them explosive chutes they use to evacuate people from aircraft mounted on top. We've been building such siege engines to scale larger walls for thousands of years.

You really built a fence there?
How can people call themselves intelligent when they cant even learn from the most recent history?
Sorry, but for me people who planned and accepted this are not much more intelligent than a sheep. Pun intended.

"Ok, the fence stands, who's brought the razorwire?" *silence* "John?" "Whot?" "Did you remember to bring the razorwire or not?" "I thought Jim was supposed to bring it" "Na, I brought the chips" "Has ANYONE got razorwire?" *silence* "Ah what the hell, let's get back home, no one could climb this thing anyway"

Rubbish! Why didn't they actually climb over?

>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:
It is time to take the kid gloves off and build the Panama Canal 2.0 on our southern border.

Wouldn't it be easier if you just fenced in your house. Easier for us, I mean. Cmon do it! At least till the war on terror is won.

Missing: high-altitude surveillance blimps, Predator drones, electrified fencing, razor wire, land mines.

And a new sound-proof asylum for liberals.

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:
Rubbish! Why didn't they actually climb over?


That, is actually illegal... but only if it's not (and probably is) a dozen feet or so from the true border.

I find it interesting that most of the people who support building a giant fence also live in gated communities.

Cirque du Solei should do a promo video on the wall...
... people dressed as gay robots climbin' up and down it using just their feet, etc.,... thats gold

And the view from the other side http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB5waY-HZ1Y

Looks like an interesting DVD.

Policy fail in action

Um. Crazy idea but couldn't the US invest in border towns on the mexico side and, you know, help people and stuff? Clearly the Mexican government can't. It'd be like Afghanistan or Iraq but without the murder!

Why not just go pure evil and scatter land mines across the border?

Or

Go pure good and take the same amount of money it took to build this fence and invest in making Mexico a better place.

>> ^sadicious:

Why not just go pure evil and scatter land mines across the border?

Can't do that, might blow up some chick wanting to climb that big fence she heard about.

>> ^quantumushroom:

Missing: high-altitude surveillance blimps, Predator drones, electrified fencing, razor wire, land mines.
And a new sound-proof asylum for liberals.


Throw the conservatives of equal annoyance in there with em.

Gonna do a great job of keeping fat Americans out of Mexico, though.