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- Djerrid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+40“And it worked over that tall fence?”
“Yup,” we say. “We're up for one more round if you want to play.”
“No, man,” the officer says. “I'm on duty.”
Brilliant! This should be a yearly event, complete with leagues and trophies.
Here's a bird's eye view of the court:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=san+diego,+ca&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=32.534874,-117.123957&spn=0.004405,0.009538&t=k&om=1 - Lane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21did anyone else catch the part where the people on the Mexican side of the border are swimming and hanging around the ''beach" and 50 feet away on the US side it clearly states this is the location of toxic waste, fecal matter and industrial waste?
- ffingers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Absolutely one of the best "feel good" stories I have read in awhile. It's amazing how something as simple as a volleyball and a huge fence can draw a crowd and make people just forget about what is really happening.
Great great read! - Sell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Now that is a good read.
- lbdwag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16that is positively one of the coolest stories in a long time!
- elCapitanNemo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Got arrested in Tijuana last year, had to bribe the cops to get free. Great place, great story.
- shertzerj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I don't think that the volleyball game is any kind of support for the "problem." It's making the best out of the current situation. It's entirely possible to get good things out of a crappy situation while trying to fix the situation at the same time.
- dagnabbit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9That's interesting how the fence goes right down into the surf. I wonder how far into the ocean the security measures go?
- saintnuke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I wonder how hard it would be to smuggle something across in the volleyball. Start the game with the volleyball on one side of the fence, end with it on the other.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -8/+14Except the other place is Mexico.
- SirCharge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Not very far, at low tide I understand you can walk or wade around it.
- LuicoSJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'm glad to know the international fence can be used for something!
- orenthal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7this may be a dumb question but is it possible to just go around the end of the fence where it goes into the water? i guess that is part of the reason for the border patrol.
- AceTracer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5As far as I can tell from the article, the Mexican team was American too?
- Shawankie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Video of game here with political commentary:
http://wholphindvd.com/movies/wallyball.html - cantoral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Imagine there's no countries...
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Except they shoot people who try to approach the fence there.
- riskjunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What a great story. Maybe we should do this with hockey ascoss the Canadian border and of course you do know who would win...
- bobsmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've been to that beach. The last time I was there (about 2 years ago) there was a parking lot and there was a small park area with nature type information panels. Except for me there were only boarder patrol agents. I won't go into the water any where south of Coronado.
- zakool21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Excellent story. Those in my office probably think I'm crazy at all of the chuckling I was doing while reading the article.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i was wondering the same thing.
wait for night, get a snorkel.
Swim 50 ft into the ocean, and swim back.
Forget long lines waiting to come back to the states. - jsmith39, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@gxc
That didn't even make sense, I'll just guess it was a racist comment since it wasn't written well enough to be obvious. - staydeadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It looks as though your joke is going to be buried, never to be fully appreciated. I offered a digg to help, but I don't think I can save it.
- YouKnowMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cant they just swim around the fence?
- moneyries, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This was shot for Wholpin DVD magazine, and it appeared on the 3rd installment of the series as "Walleyball: Yeah Yeah, We Speak Perfect English, Just Serve".
- Pinoycyberwebs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why there is no fence on the water? hmmm... Is there a Forcefield in the water or electric fence? har har har! Look I can go on the other side.... hehhehe
- mwosh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It might just be me, but I think it was the Mexican's serve for the 14-13 game point.
They scored a point, and should have gotten the ball back, but for some reason the U.S. team served and ended up winning. - idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@NSMike
Yeah, that's still in America. And so is the United States. So he's right. - macabremonster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1pshh you know mexicans put thier babies in those volleyballs.
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6The fence might not go far into the water, but I bet if your feet touched the water, Border Patrol would be on your ass in seconds... not to mention the water isn't exacty sanitary.
- Lane, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6Pretty freakin hard since a ball filled with anything would throw off its balance and the fence is two stories tall..... the gaurds are watching ya know! u might as well be throwing a bag over that says *DRUGS* over...
- imightbewrong, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3that looks pretty easy to sneak around
- MysticSavage, on 10/12/2007, -13/+9Free green cards if the Mexicans win?
- jasoneisen, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3"It's amazing how something as simple as a volleyball and a huge fence can draw a crowd and make people just forget about what is really happening."
Let's not deal with the problem itself, let's just make best with the results of it!
Up next: NSA phone tag. First to get nagged for saying "Al-Qaeda" or "terrorist" on an international (heck, probably even local for all we know) phone call is it! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4only in america you can play vollyball in two places at once
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3Just for future reference
every Mexican currency reads:
The United States of Mexico of America
so don't give me that America bs
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