Ever see a headline and think this HAS to be a Babylon Bee article? - Texas plans a floating barrier in the Rio Grande.
Ever see a headline and think this HAS to be a Babylon Bee article? - Texas plans a floating barrier in the Rio Grande.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced a $1 million string of buoys along the river that divides Texas and Mexico — and more may be installed in the future.
At this point in history, I think we're counting down the days to the closure of satirical news sites like The Onion and Babylon Bee because real news is too crazy that it all sounds like a satirical news article.
No joke! How do you write something more wild than this while still sounding a little convincing?? This is even hard to believe!
Pull a little silly and just keep slighty moving the buoys further up the river every night and see how far they can get before someone notices
At first I was all "Can't they just swim under it?" and the article said the buoys would have webbing under the surface. So then presumably they could just cut the webbing. So odd.
I'm not quite familiar with the Rio Grande river and what lives there but couldn't this cause a lot of issues for the wildlife in the river as well? Like if anything is migrating up and down it couldn't the barrier just block them from doing so?
Very likely, yes. This whole thing is being done without a lot of thought other than appealing to a specific demographic of voters.
That's a dumber idea than the Giant Rubber Duck we have floating around the Great Lakes.
