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Europe
Bulgaria to construct fence along border with Turkey
2011-04-23
It's all the rage, dontchknow.
Clearly their betters haven't yet told them that fences don't work. Just throw the border wide open and don't worry 'bout who comes through...
The Bulgarian Cabinet ratified plans to build a 210-kilometer fence along the border it shares with Turkey, Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review reported Thursday.

The Bulgarian government said that the fence aims to restrict the movement of cattle between the two countries, helping to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.

A Bulgarian minister said it was "extremely wrong" to compare the fence with the Berlin Wall, adding that the fence serves to purpose of solely limiting animal passage between the two countries.
Nothing to do with keeping stray Turks or those from further east or south from accidentally wandering across the border.
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  Yet another gateway to the rich pickings of the West, Secret Master.

Oh, I know: I've been over to Europe a bunch of times. It was just fun to say.
Posted by: Secret Master   2011-04-23 18:14  

#7  How bad was it to risk your life in relatively small wooden boats on a great ocean without keen knowledge of hurricanes, ice flows, and unkempt brigands, not to mention really unfriendly locals? Seems a whole lot of people played that game a couple of hundred years ago.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-04-23 16:50  

#6   Man: how bad does your country suck when you're trying to escape to Bulgaria?

Yet another gateway to the rich pickings of the West, Secret Master.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-04-23 15:16  

#5  Man: how bad does your country suck when you're trying to escape to Bulgaria?
Posted by: Secret Master   2011-04-23 15:11  

#4  Its about time - I'm tired of all these critters straying into my garden, eating the cabbage, beans, corn, rice and messing all over the place..... not to mention the smell of these flatulent beasts. Where is the Border Patrol when you need them?
/ sarc off

Oh .... this is Bulgaria and Turkey .... never mind
Posted by: Goodluck   2011-04-23 11:34  

#3  Exploding cow pies. It's the methane build-up, y'know...
Posted by: Fred   2011-04-23 10:18  

#2  Those aren't mines. They're, uh, cow pies.
Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685   2011-04-23 01:56  

#1  purpose of solely limiting animal passage between the two countries

There's those of us who might consider that a true statement, especially with the term 'animals' referring to Islamist wackos.
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-04-23 01:18  

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