For some reason I really like this. These people played a game of vollyball over the US/Mexico border fence for over an hour until border patrol showed up and told them it had to stop. There's just something great about it. They even played against Mexicans, which is way better than a few of them running to the other side.

All this activity finally brings down the hammer of the border patrol, and a jeep shows up to separate us. The officer is friendly but firm. He’s just come on shift and has no idea we’ve been playing volleyball over the fence for the past hour.

“Really?”

He tells us that a daredevil launched himself across the border in a cannon a while back, but that ours was, in fact, the first-ever game of international border volleyball.

“And it worked over that tall fence?”

“Yup,” we say. “We’re up for one more round if you want to play.”

“No, man,” the officer says. “I’m on duty.”

¡Viva Border Volleyball!

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Monday September 25, 2006