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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ben on March 22, 2019, 11:34:44 AM

Title: Stealing the Border Barrier
Post by: Ben on March 22, 2019, 11:34:44 AM: Mexicans are stealing the concertina wire separating the US and Tijuana and using it to barricade their homes because of the violent Tijuana crime. I think there's irony in there somewhere.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/residents-in-worlds-most-violent-city-tijuana-are-stealing-trump-administrations-border-wire-to-protect-themselves-report-says
Title: Re: Stealing the Border Barrier
Post by: MillCreek on March 22, 2019, 01:51:00 PM: Mexico will pay for the wire!
Title: Re: Stealing the Border Barrier
Post by: WLJ on March 22, 2019, 05:24:57 PM: Quote from: MillCreek on March 22, 2019, 01:51:00 PM
Mexico will pay for the ~~wire~~ claymores!

FIFY
Title: Re: Stealing the Border Barrier
Post by: HankB on March 22, 2019, 06:11:50 PM: Natives will scavenge what they can that's portable.

When I was in Zimbabwe, local natives were routinely stealing wire from game fences (especially those around Gonarezhou National Park) to make illegal wire snares for trapping game.
Title: Re: Stealing the Border Barrier
Post by: French G. on March 22, 2019, 07:14:29 PM: We picked up Seabees out of Haiti once, I heard of a Haitian that was shot and killed over stealing a 2x4 from a Haitian military post.
Title: Re: Stealing the Border Barrier
Post by: MechAg94 on March 22, 2019, 07:22:08 PM: I have heard there are a some countries where international shippers assume the shipping containers will never leave and build that into the cost.