At the behest of the Danish government, a five-foot steel fence is being built along the 70 km (40-mile) border to prevent an influx of immigrants from the rest of Europe. Mr Ellermann thinks it an aesthetic affront that violates the European ethos of invisible borders.
The immigrants in question are wild boar, which can carry African Swine Fever (asf)... There is no cure and no vaccine, so the Danes have opted for a radical solution: shoot all the boar in Denmark and keep out foreign ones....
February 24, 2019
"Danes are building a controversial barrier along the border with Germany."
The Economist reports.
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YaY, wall!
Invisible borders, invisible countries.
The boar. Sure. That’s what they want to keep out.
Just a few more feet taller and a little barbed wire at the top... How much more can that cost?
Stay tuned for pictures of cute little piggies torn from their mother's breast.
Sounds immoral to me.
If only we could kill all American bores and prevent any new importations.
Sigh. Of course, that would mean the death of almost all NYC and D.C. journalists and pundits.
Dem Ol' Swines is big business in the State of Denmark!
Denmark is one of the world's chief producers of pork. A swine disease epidemic would do grievous harm to the Danish economy.
A little known factoid with which to amaze your friends & humble your enemies is that most of the pork ribs served at family-themed chains like Chile's are Danish. The Europeans, being the product of degenerate cultures, think that pork ribs are trash meat, and won't pay very much for them. But, us culturally superior Uhmericans, having figured out just how tasty properly smoked ribs can be, will pay the Danes a higher price than the Europeans. Thus, Danish pork ribs swim across the pond to grace our tables.
And they’re delicious! I’m doing my part to cull the herd today.
Controlling the spread of alien antigens is one reason to have a hunting season. An occupation and disorder would be two others. Perhaps immigration with a border and quarantine could reduce the emergent, potentially progressive, risk to the native population.
Walls don't work.
Bacon works.
I think Roger Waters needs to intervene with his inflatable pig.
They should do what TX and LA do, hunts. They’d get American tourism.
Da Boars!
Perhaps one could tease out an allegory in there, somewhere.
Danish pork ribs swim across the pond to grace our tables
While most pork will cross by water, a particularly sumptuous pork will fly.
Do not pay the Boar-geld
else you will never get rid of the Boar...
I thought boars were Dutch?
Does the fever affect humans?
Boy, are they going to hear from PETA!
Nothing new. The Viking built a wall in roughly the same area called the Danevirke to keep invasive Germans out.
Thus proving Trump position is moderate.
Walls don't work.
Tear down existent walls.
@Birkel,
Walls don't work.
Tear down existent walls.
In a pig's eye!
Shoot all the wild boar already in the country, and build a wall to keep out those trying to get in? If I read that Kirstjen Nielsen is flying to Copenhagen next week I'll be kind of concerned about why.
Nothing good ever came out of Africa.
"When Germany sends its boars, they’re not sending their best.
They’re sending boars that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with them"
LOL! PC makes liars out of everyone.
I read a story at least a dozen years ago in the WSJ about how wild boars have taken over many of the parks in Berlin. The Germans have had to hire special people to kill them and they can't keep up.
Idiots feed the pigs and they get bold.
There's a huge boar problem in Texas, OK, parts of KS and NE. I read it in The New Yorker, but I also saw it with my own eyes in San Antonio. My ex-brother-in-law loves to hunt the pigs. He supposedly killed one with his bare hands and a knife. Nuts.
Reminds me of the Kinky Friedman line, spoken whenever he lit up a Cuban cigar.
"I'm not breaking the embargo. I'm burning their fields."
Wild boars are clever, but they can be killed. And make good eating.
Wiley Left-wing bores are almost impossible to get rid of, unless you own a magazine or newspaper.
Probably wouldn't hurt to let Muslim immigrants know that crossing into Denmark could expose them to being killed by wild boars.
Look at ALthouse. The left-wing bores will take over the comment section unless hunted down and wiped out.
Sigh. Of course, that would mean the death of almost all NYC and D.C. journalists and pundits.
And that's a problem because ...?
Actually, I don't want to kill them -- just make them work for a living for a while so they find out what it's like. Make them empty bedpans or fix stopped up toilets or repair a pipe that broke in the cold weather or even just paint a fence. Then they might appreciate other people.
If the work didn't kill them.
Bring in the Italians, they can fix this problem. The solution is more cingnale.
Wild board also roam Hong Kong, even venturing into some of the outlying villages looking for food. It's not unusual to see them on hiking trails, and the best thing to do is stay away from them as they can be very dangerous.
Can wild boar learn to code?
We already know press bores aren't smart enough.
Can wild boar learn to code?
Thankfully, no. Computer nerds like me can be boring enough.
"Nothing good ever came out of Africa."
You mean, "Nothing good ever came out of my racist mouth."
Between "The Wall", and it's secondary fence we could pen herds of wild boar and let them control illegals. It'd be organic! And, except for the largest of calibers, they're almost bullet proof!
If they don't wrap them in foil, as migrants should be, they'll wrap the pigs in a blanket.
Nothing good ever came out of Africa.
@Char Char, h. sapiens came out of Africa. Hmmm. Actually sort of proves your point, doesn’t?
Gotta protect that Danish bacon industry.
Seeing Red said...
"They should do what TX and LA do, hunts. They’d get American tourism"
Hunting them is great, and I like pork, but they are wiley SOBs. On my place, they seldom come out in the daylight, and they're wise to my trap. I got two in December, which are the first in several years. Yet they are many. They'll churn an acre or two of soil at a time.
We can learn from them, though the lesson seems a bit, umm, rigorous.
But they can learn from us: make Germany pay!
Oh, if only we could do the same
- Krumhorn
They should also shoot some German bores.
“But you don’t live in that jungle, Sherman, and you never have. You know what’s in that jungle? People who are all the time crossing back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, from this side of the law to the other side, from this side to the other side.
If this was "Peabody's Improbable History" Sherman would be getting incorrect information about the jungle out there because once a felon, always a felon. If this Sherman isn't talking to a cartoon dog, the answer remains the same.
Char Char Binks said...
Nothing good ever came out of Africa
Black girls come out of Africa.
stevew said...
I thought boars were Dutch?
That’s “boers”. It’s okay to call them that. The blacks have another word for them: maburu. They don’t like that. There’s no direct translation, but “white piece of shit farmer” is close enough.
Trumpit said...
"Nothing good ever came out of Africa."
You mean, "Nothing good ever came out of my racist mouth."
We already knew that Trumpit. Oh, you meant the other guy. Nice try, dumbass.
"@Char Char, h. sapiens came out of Africa. Hmmm. Actually sort of proves your point, doesn’t?"
Exactly
There is no cure and no vaccine, so the Danes have opted for a radical solution: shoot all the boar in Denmark and keep out foreign ones....
Nice analogy ya got there, Danes. It'd be a shame if something was gonna happen to it...
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