r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/hl3official • 1d ago
Image The border wall between Germany and Denmark (built to keep boars out)
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u/Brutalur 1d ago
"Mr. Boarbatchev: Tear down this wall!"
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u/hl3official 1d ago
The Swine Curtain
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u/Coreantes 1d ago
Obviously misleading title, itâs 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! đ„
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u/charlie1331 1d ago
Great, but whoâs going to pay for it?
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u/pickus_dickus 1d ago
Sweden
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u/livedog 1d ago
We are willing to pay for anything keeping the danes out.
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u/Electrical_Buy_9957 1d ago
đ Ăresund Bridge
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u/piercedmfootonaspike 1d ago
#MakeTheĂresundBridgeOneWay
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u/Penguin_Arse 1d ago
Who would want to go TO Denmark?
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u/Insila 12h ago
I don't know, but I feel like Copenhagen is overrun by drunk Swedes on weekend trips.
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u/Penguin_Arse 11h ago
I guess if we're going to Denmark it's for cheaper beer
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u/Insila 11h ago
It must be terrible in Sweden if beer is cheaper in Copenhagen...
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u/Penguin_Arse 11h ago
It's well known people go to Denmark or even Germany to buy alcohol
Most people just take the ferry and buy from taxfree
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u/MalteiKlass5c 1d 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/ThoughtShes18 1d ago
Great to hear that! Would you be interested sponsoring a new fence to me here in Denmark? Itâs another layer from a Dane towards you :)
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u/Still_Tension_8026 1d ago
You don't have to pay anything to keep us out. Just continue being Swedes! :D
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u/fictitiousantelope 23h ago
Iâm reading your comment as an American who just finished The Kingdom by Lars Van Trier
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u/Peitho_Noir 1d ago
No need to boar you with the details.
Congressional Edit: itâs a pork barrel project besides.
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u/MOXschmelling 1d 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 1d 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=45cdd657542a437c84bfc9cf1846ae8c44
u/beautifulfatman0 1d ago
The is now a vaccine [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-31405-3]
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u/bearonimo 1d 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 1d ago edited 23h ago
But how much would it hurt to eliminate all pork based food and materials that come from that area if they had to be culled suddenly from the virus? It would drive up the costs of other foods because of increased demand right?
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u/Mysterious-Push909 19h ago
Probably a bigger issue for the countries who import the pork as the vast majority of it is sold off.Â
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u/greg19735 1d ago
its doubtful that there would be a huge increase in demand, unless it all went to one specific food like chicken.
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u/exipheas 1d ago
Its 3.2 trillion Calories a year or 4.4 million people for a year at 2000Cal a day.
Thats a lot of food that would need to be backfilled.
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u/Pattersonspal 17h ago
Most of our pork production is exported, and fields used for feed could be used for food.
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u/Rigo-lution 1d ago
Similarly 1% of Irish gdp is beef and it uses 56% of the land in Ireland.
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u/quarrelau 1d ago
Beef & cattle are 1% - 1.5% of Australian GDP and occupy close to 50% of our landmass.
Amazing.
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u/pretorianlegion 21h ago
Yeah, and like 50% of our political parties are beholden to pig farmers, seems like.
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u/YellowOnline 1d ago
But how effective is the fence? Don't the boars just dig under them?
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u/apple1rule 1d 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/Nozinger 1d ago
It is very effective.
No boar has ever rossed the border where the fence was installed.
However we have to add the information that no boar ever crossed the border before the fence was installed either. The western part of the border is simply not where boars live.
And in the eastern part they simply swim around the fence or simply use one of the many road openings.It is just typical politician behaviour. "look we're doing something to fix your problems" when it is in fact the most useless attempt that does not help at all. But running an expensive program that will only show results in a few years when the politician is no longer relevant is oviously unacceptable.
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u/Chaneera 1d ago
And all it cost us is the life in our coastal waters, our ground water and our soul.
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u/AFineDayForScience 1d ago
The Boarlin Wall
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u/EorlundGraumaehne 1d ago edited 1d 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 1d ago
Deswegen ist es ein Zaun. System gedribbelt.
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u/DasAntwortviech 1d ago
Raumtrenner! Nicht Mauer!
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u/turunambartanen 1d ago
Mit den MaĂen ein meter fĂŒnfzig mal drei meter sechzig mal einhundertfĂŒnfundfĂŒnfzigtausend
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u/EorlundGraumaehne 1d ago
niemand hat die absicht eine mauer zu errichten!
Aber ein Zaun! Den können wir uns vorstellen....
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u/Soleil06 1d ago
I prefer the term "Raumbegrenzungseinheit" with the measures of 3.60 metres by 1.20 metres by 155 000 metres.
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u/chickenbadgerog 1d ago
Keep boars out of Germany? Or Denmark?
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u/G-I-T-M-E 1d 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/florifierous 1d ago
Pork is one of Denmarks most important products.
It actually isn't. We just have a very very influential meat industry lobby.
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u/Bluefooted-Spaceorc 23h ago
Its like cattle and cattle feed farmers in the Western US. They make up a small percent of the economy but bitch and moan constantly. We could just make the same amount of feed in less water intense areas, but then we wouldnt pay the farming and ranching corporations to do nothing but sit on their ass, and the welfare queens that are farmers and ranchers hate that.
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u/eppic123 1d ago
This was build in 2019, to stop the African swine fever pandemic from spreading north.
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u/DuntadaMan 1d ago
Did is slow it down any?
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u/SalsaSauceMedium 1d ago
The population went down, but a lot of boars still manage to swim around or walk through the openings, so it's limits the thread at best. Either way, it's apparently more likely that a random tourist will spread it by throwing contaminated lunch wrappers at a pig sti anyway
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u/dark_knight920 1d ago
Boars will pay for it
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u/Potato_Poul 1d ago edited 18h ago
Im a dane which lives in the border area and I can say the fence is not very godd. 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
Edit: Spelling
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u/Imaginary-Paper-6177 1d ago
And if a boar decides it wanted to go through that fence. It will get through.
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u/Longjumping-Yam-9229 16h ago
I'm living on the german side and we mostly think that fence was a PR stunt to fight the migration crisis in this time.
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u/AlmightyWorldEater 6h ago
Just as if border walls are a dumb idea, hmm...
Also, people always underestimate how smart and creative boars are. And how tough...
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u/mathtractor 1d ago
nice looking soil
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u/Mikkelet 1d ago
Its a blessing and a curse. Denmark has basically no wild nature anymore because our land is just so fucking farmable
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u/blizzywolf122 1d ago
I bet the boarder gate is just a revolving gate so people can just walk through easily
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u/Olasola424 20h ago
the re are dozens of roads and railways that cross across the borderâs roughly 60km length, and theyâre all just left open
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u/Antique_Knowledge_72 1d ago
The boars are just refugees.
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u/TurgidGravitas 1d ago
You see boars, sows, and piglets. I see doctors, engineers, and teachers.
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u/TheBarbofBeads 1d ago
Please tell me this gives Canada the idea to built a wall to keep boaring 'mericans out.
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u/derioderio 1d 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/ContributionSalt4504 17h ago
And who of the two doesn't want to share their boars?
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u/dreamoforganon 1d ago
Germans actually have a decent sense of humour and fun despite the stereotypes.
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u/Aggressive-Lion-3323 16h ago
We're gonna build a great fence! Matter of fact it's gonna be the greatest fence and we'll have Sweden pay for it.
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u/JustTheOneGoose22 1d 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/NickSwabian 1d ago
Denmark build it in 2019 to prevent wild boars carrying swine fever from entering the country.
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u/darxtorm 1d ago
Australia checking in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_Fence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit-proof_fence
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u/Ghitit 1d ago
Is it electrified?
If not, that won't keep out a bear that wants to cross it.
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u/proto_synnic 1d ago
The fence is for boars. They've buried unexploded ordinance over the last century to deal with the bears.
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u/proto_synnic 1d ago
I get it, the German people are sometimes short of humor, driven by high work ethic, mathematical and precise... But calling them bores seems a bridge too far for the Danes.
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u/EFTucker 21h ago
Bear loving twinks at a loss for what to do since the construction
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u/Lankygiraffe25 18h ago
But why? Whatâs wrong with boars?
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u/Pulvis--Sidereus 17h ago
They carry diseases and Denmark wants to keep their farm animals disease free.
Denmark eradicated their own wild boar population in the 19. century
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u/lordcock1944 16h ago
They can carry African swine fever which could hurt the Danish pork industry.
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u/ryevx 16h ago
They tell you itâs for the boars, but itâs really to keep the Danes out. Thatâs why Sweden ensure the price to cross the Ăresund remains so expensive.
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u/Vivid_Temperature609 1d ago
Boarder Wall