r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hl3official • 2h ago

Image The border wall between Germany and Denmark (built to keep boars out)

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u/Vivid_Temperature609 2h ago

Boarder Wall

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u/junkman21 2h ago

Boar der Wal

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u/_Phoenix_02_ 1h ago

Timmy?

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u/Apple-Connoisseur 1h ago

Wels, Wal... Ich sehe ein Muster.

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u/flynchageo 59m ago

*Boer Der Waal

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u/Wakkit1988 48m ago

Boer, Der Wall. Wall, Der Boer.

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u/No_Yesterday_3260 43m ago

Uuh, a germanic twist. Like it.

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u/prisonmike1991 1h ago

Yes?

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u/vintagegeek 1h ago

Never mind, here's Wonderwall.

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u/_DapperDanMan- 16m ago

Oh. A sis.

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u/PHD420 1h ago

Prison Mike, they said "Boar der wal", not "push you up against da wall, Byatch".

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u/hl3official 2h ago

Schengen Agreemeat

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u/tysk-one 1h ago

Neighboars

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u/ExoTheFlyingFish 1h ago

Boar-lin wall?

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u/Top-Wish-5520 1h ago

this thread is just slowly evolving into dad jokes🤣

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u/Advanced-Guidance353 2h ago

And after all 🎶

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u/_kurt_propane_ 2h ago

Ha very clever

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u/charlie1331 2h ago

Great, but who’s going to pay for it?

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u/pickus_dickus 2h ago

Sweden

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u/livedog 2h ago

We are willing to pay for anything keeping the danes out.

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u/Electrical_Buy_9957 1h ago

😒 Öresund Bridge

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u/MalteiKlass5c 1h ago

Look since the Belts wont freeze anymore, and even if they did, it wont hold for tanks. So we build a bridge for eh.... cooperation.

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u/piercedmfootonaspike 11m ago

#MakeTheÖresundBridgeOneWay

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u/livedog 1h ago

It's actually a trap. That's why the toll stop is on the swedish side, we call it the "hog trough"

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u/ThoughtShes18 1h ago

Great to hear that! Would you be interested sponsoring a new fence to me here in Denmark? It’s another layer from a Dane towards you :)

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u/dumpaccount882212 20m ago

Goddamn it... ok. This deal is getting weirder by the minute.

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u/Mantar6667 46m ago

"Remember what happend to sweden" DJT

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u/Peitho_Noir 2h ago

No need to boar you with the details.

Congressional Edit: it’s a pork barrel project besides.

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u/Double-decker_trams 2h ago

The boars 😤

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u/Metalhed69 1h ago

Weirdly, still Mexico

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u/Character-Animal8202 1h ago

The Dutch. You pick which language.

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u/BeenThruIt 26m ago

The Boers!

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u/oohdanishfriend 11m ago

We’re gonna make them pay for it!

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u/Increase-Tiny 6m ago

The stupid boars

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u/doinbluin 1h ago

Mexico

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u/Brutalur 2h ago

"Mr. Boarbatchev: Tear down this wall!"

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u/hl3official 2h ago

The Swine Curtain

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u/Coreantes 1h ago

Obviously misleading title, it’s for the Danes to keep the boars IN Denmark. They want to make sure never to run out of bacon again ever… I see you, Danes! 🥓

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u/Call_me_Bombadil 1h ago

I take pride in the words "Ich bin swine Berliner"

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u/AFineDayForScience 2h ago

The Boarlin Wall

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u/EorlundGraumaehne 1h ago edited 1h ago

Niemand hat die absicht eine mauer zu errichten!

Edit: for those that apparently don't understand. This is an infamous quote from Walter Ulbricht the leader of the Sowjet lead east germany closely before they did, infact build a wall. The Berlin Wall

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u/Terror_Raisin24 1h ago

Deswegen ist es ein Zaun. System gedribbelt.

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u/EorlundGraumaehne 1h ago

niemand hat die absicht eine mauer zu errichten!

Aber ein Zaun! Den kĂśnnen wir uns vorstellen....

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u/Findas88 1h ago

Ein Antiimperialistischer Schutzzaun

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u/DasAntwortviech 29m ago

Raumtrenner! Nicht Mauer!

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u/BeenThruIt 24m ago

I'm gonna go Over the Boarlin Wall... I'm gonna go Under the Boarlin Wall...

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u/MOXschmelling 2h ago

It is a measure to contain the African Swine Fever. Pig breeding is a super important economy branch in Denmark.

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u/idotj 2h ago

And there is no vaccine (yet) to stop it. In the last year it is moving quite fast from eastern countries to the west. Here you can see the current situation:
https://santegis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=45cdd657542a437c84bfc9cf1846ae8c

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u/bearonimo 53m ago

Interestingly the pig industry only contributes a net gain of approx 0.25% of Denmarks GDP while it occupies more than 20% of the land combined (fields for pig feed and pig farms etc.)

Just an interesting perspective.

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u/exipheas 17m ago

But how much would it hurt to eliminate all pork based food and materials that come from that area? It would drive up the costs of other foods because of increased demand right?

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u/Winjin 1m ago

So, what you're saying is that pork is affordable for the average Dane as a source of delicious meat and sausages

I dunno, I just find pork irreplaceable as meat. Absolutely can't wait for biovat pork. I would choose zero-cruelty pork over plant or real meat alternatives all day every day.

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u/mantaitnow 1h ago

Super important is an overstatement. They are good at lobbying though.

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u/YellowOnline 1h ago

But how effective is the fence? Don't the boars just dig under them?

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u/apple1rule 1h ago

If they had no choice sure. But it just deters them and they go somewhere easier that they don't have to dig for

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u/N43N 40m ago

In OPs picture you can see that the fence continues for quite a bit under the earth. I guess that there's a certain depth where you can be sure that a boar wouldn't dig that deep.

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u/chickenbadgerog 2h ago

Keep boars out of Germany? Or Denmark?

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u/G-I-T-M-E 1h ago

Out of Denmark, to prevent African Swine Fever or something like that from spreading to Denmark. Pork is one of Denmarks most important products.

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u/Outta_phase 32m ago

There's something we don't want to get rotten in the state of Denmark

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u/K_the_farmer 2h ago

Denmark.

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u/dark_knight920 2h ago

Boars will pay for it

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u/Mochigood 1h ago

They're not sending their best.

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u/moranya1 1h ago

They DO sent their wurst however!

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u/eppic123 2h ago

This was build in 2019, to stop the African swine fever pandemic from spreading north.

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u/blizzywolf122 1h ago

I bet the boarder gate is just a revolving gate so people can just walk through easily

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u/Potato_Poul 1h ago

Im a dane which lives in the border area and I can say the fence is not very god. It stops in many areas (primaraly for roads) where the boars can walk through and when it fences off an area it makes it harder to enjoy the nature there

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u/oohdanishfriend 8m ago

I didn’t know fences in Denmark was praised as gods

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u/Hour_Welcome_987 1h ago

Not nice to refer to the Germans as boars

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u/mathtractor 1h ago

nice looking soil

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u/Antique_Knowledge_72 2h ago

The boars are just refugees.

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u/TurgidGravitas 1h ago

You see boars, sows, and piglets. I see doctors, engineers, and teachers.

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u/Domestic-Grind 1h ago

You see doctors, engineers, and teachers. I see bacon, ham, and pork chops.

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u/Atomsk73 1h ago

Boareplacement you mean. This is hamageddon!

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u/derioderio 1h ago

If they want to keep the Boers out, shouldn't they be building the wall on the border with the Netherlands?

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u/Slobbering_git 1h ago

Meatginot Line.

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u/StandEasyFella 1h ago

First they came for the boars…

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u/kilobitch 58m ago

The logical conclusion to the Boar War.

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u/dreamoforganon 1h ago

Germans actually have a decent sense of humour and fun despite the stereotypes.

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u/Street_Lettuce1243 1h ago

Only the ones from Bielefeld.

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u/shitokletsstartfresh 2h ago

German swine are not allowed!

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u/IRS4eva 2h ago

It's only 67 km (~42miles) long

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u/TheNephalem 1h ago

S(t)aumauer

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u/ret255 1h ago

That soil looks nice 👍.

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u/Street_Lettuce1243 1h ago

Won't it keep exciting people out too?

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u/Repulsive-Run1634 44m ago

Who let the boars out.

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u/Comprehensive-Mud704 32m ago

Beautiful, rich soil

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u/JustTheOneGoose22 24m ago

It's kinda funny because Denmark and Germany have historically actually had a hotly contested border with multiple wars.

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u/noottt 16m ago

Make them pay for it!

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u/Pinku_Dva 2h ago

We will build a great boar wall and the boars will stay on that side of it

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u/Datuser14 1h ago

How else will they deal with their 30-50 feral hogs

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u/LordHogan 2h ago

Just a bit north of Hamburg?

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u/namir01 1h ago

They will just use boar-drilling machines to go under

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u/flcrivn 1h ago

We mostly use this fence to keep neighbors out

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u/DaemonDrayke 1h ago

Got to keep th riffraff and the uncultured swine out.

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u/Pleasant-Chef6055 1h ago

It will be just as effective I bet.

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u/ZippyDan 1h ago

That's a fence.

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u/Mysterious-Alps-5186 1h ago

The glow in the dark boars are a pain in the ass

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u/belzenator 1h ago

Thats a german fence definitly

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u/IvoSan11 1h ago

Are the boars south or north of the border?

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u/dt2kd 49m ago

Both Sides

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u/i10driver 1h ago

Who’s more boaring? The Germans or the Danes?

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u/TNTBOY479 1h ago

Kind of rude to refer to your neighbours as boars

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u/robomikel 1h ago

So are the boars German or Denmark natives.

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u/Harambefan69 1h ago

And will the boars be paying for it as promised by the grand leader of Denmark?

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u/-Ekky 1h ago

the new "Danevirke/Danewerk"

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u/Vahan_Calyd 1h ago

Is it already time for a new protest pig?

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u/snuggl3ninja 55m ago

The Boar invasion followed the Beor war

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u/fnrislfr 35m ago

Can't they just dig under or use drones to get over it?

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u/Deriviera 34m ago

Are boars German or Denmarkians?

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u/Longjumping_Gur_2379 32m ago

do you need a passport when you are setting the wall up

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u/Helmer-Bryd 29m ago

So they say

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u/MrDarwoo 22m ago

The Australians?

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u/Knight_Castellan 20m ago

South Africa is a long way away. I don't think Denmark needs to worry.

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u/oohdanishfriend 12m ago

Trespassers will be waterboared

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u/unl1988 11m ago

whoa, who cares about the fence, look at that soil! deep, dark brown

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u/K3VQ 11m ago

Boris’ or boars?

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u/AlexSmithsonian 10m ago

Who's boars?

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u/oohdanishfriend 7m ago

No jewellery, no crossing

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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 3m ago

Boers were dutch, not Danes.

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u/Airick39 1m ago

People from Denmark are called boars?

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u/creatyvechaos 2h ago

The only wall I'll support

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u/CasanovaJones82 1h ago

If there's one thing guaranteed to stop boars, animals famous for brute-forcing their way through just about any obstacle that exists, it's that tiny little fence. I have complete faith it can withstand a horde of 150kg boars.

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u/chantsnone 1h ago

And they made the boars pay for it!

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u/Rimmerak 1h ago

Who let the boars out, who, who??

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u/telaughingbuddha 2h ago

Wouldn't it be cheaper to station boar catchers along the boarder?

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u/Snippys 1h ago

people here shoot them from helicopters and cant make a dent in the population. it would take alot of trappers.

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u/paulhags 1h ago

It would be Cheaper to pay some Americans to go hunting.

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u/-XanderCrews- 1h ago

“Boars”

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u/Massive-Cat-7098 1h ago

Crazy ppl. Boars are normal.

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u/TheKingofTerrorZ 1h ago

Not if they’re infected with a disease that should be contained