File this away under reasons Congress is dumb for authorizing construction a fence that’ll span 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border: government- employed fence menders in El Paso bitch about their job daily, and they only deal with one that’s 12 miles long. You heard right: the honkeys hired to do almost nothing but re-weld portions of fencing undone by wily Mexicans and refill holes dug underneath it consider their work “disheartening” and “frustrating,” not to mention grossly inefficient if applied on a larger scale. For good measure, their supervisor gets all philosophical about it:

Salvador Zamora, assistant Border Patrol agent in charge of the El Paso station, said no amount of vigilance… will prevent someone from taking a pair of bolt cutters to the fence. “If it’s made by man, it’s going to be tampered [with] and overcome by man,” he said.

Unless, of course, that man is pick-up artist Mystery and ‘it’ is a pass at you. In which case, it’s overcome by common sense and a natural aversion to douchebags.

Fixing holes in the border fence is a never-ending task for U.S. agents [Austin American-Statesman]
Image [Victor Calzada / AP Photo]