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The effectiveness of an $8 Billion wall vs. a used $200 pole and two friends. (Original Post) ffr Mar 2019 OP
K&R stonecutter357 Mar 2019 #1
That doesn't look that easy... yuiyoshida Mar 2019 #2
They're SWAT. ffr Mar 2019 #3
LOL yuiyoshida Mar 2019 #5
Steve King would add, "and calves big as cantaloupes". Canoe52 Mar 2019 #4
right.... yuiyoshida Mar 2019 #6
Only the first person homegirl Mar 2019 #7
Yep. One person with a rope ladder. The Wielding Truth Mar 2019 #8
Why not just use a ladder instead of a pole in the first place? William Seger Mar 2019 #9
Pole is faster bjvom Mar 2019 #10
Genius! Karadeniz Mar 2019 #11
On the north side, someone will detonate a couple hundred pounds NCjack Mar 2019 #12

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
2. That doesn't look that easy...
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 11:54 AM
Mar 2019

You have to have strong legs and a good back to do that... I would probably would need a safety net.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
5. LOL
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 12:17 PM
Mar 2019

YES but could the average joe climb up a wall that way? I tend to doubt it. Someone young and nimble, most likely!

homegirl

(1,428 posts)
7. Only the first person
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 12:32 PM
Mar 2019

has to have the strength to get to the top and hook a rope ladder on each side of the EIGHT BILLION $ WALL!

William Seger

(10,778 posts)
9. Why not just use a ladder instead of a pole in the first place?
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 02:28 PM
Mar 2019

It's cool to watch, but it seems unnecessarily complicated and dangerous when you could just lean an extendible ladder against the wall.

 

bjvom

(51 posts)
10. Pole is faster
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 03:42 PM
Mar 2019

A pole is faster, less complicated, more transportable and easier to improvise than a ladder. The pole those Vietnamese cops were using is probably a chunk of bamboo they can get just about anywhere. Bamboo is a grass and it grows rapidly and is rigid as heck.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
12. On the north side, someone will detonate a couple hundred pounds
Tue Mar 12, 2019, 05:04 PM
Mar 2019

of plastique, and 1000 people on the south side will walk through.

Not to be out done, someone on the north side will steal a Cat D11 Bull Dozer, crash it into Trump wall, and clear a walk path. 1000 people on the south side will walk through.

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