man who spent $30m building a 3-mile wall between the US and Mexico is looking for someone to buy it

[CatWoman]

Tommy Fisher, 51, spent $30 million to build a 3-mile wall in Rio Grande, Texas.

It's made up of 15,000 steel posts that run along the river separating US and Mexico in the area.

He's now looking for someone to buy it, reported Bloomberg.



Last year, at a cost of $30 million, Tommy Fisher finished building a private 3-mile wall at the US-Mexico border in Texas. Now the 51-year-old is searching for someone to buy it, Bloomberg reported.

It's looking to be a tough sell, especially since President Joe Biden has rolled back construction on his predecessor's wall (though Biden's chief of homeland security did say in April that the administration might try to fill "gaps" in the existing barrier). Just last month, Biden returned $2.2 billion to the military that had been allocated to building a wall under the Trump administration.

According to Bloomberg, Fisher's wall, which runs along the Rio Grande, consists of "15,000 18-foot-tall steel bollards" spaced 5 inches apart.

https://news.yahoo.com/man-spent-30-million-building-062315895.html

[hlthe2b]

1. WHY would ANYONE buy such a monstrosity?

I dare say I can name a half dozen 80-year-olds who could walk the three miles to get around it. So, what is his perceived benefit?

[SheltieLover]

3. Or build one!?!

[JackSabbath]

7. The most you'd have to walk is 1.5 miles

If you were right in the middle👍

[hlthe2b]

9. True

[gratuitous]

2. The most annoying aspect of this story

How this fool and his money ever got together in the first place.

[SheltieLover]

5. Think of all the good work that money could have been funned into!

[Sneederbunk]

4. Abbott is dumb enough to buy it.

However, Fisher may want to look up the word "flanking" in the dictionary.

[smirkymonkey]

6. Hah! Good luck with that!

[getagrip_already]

8. what does 1.5 M pounds of scrap metal go for these days?

By the time you pay a crew to dig it up and truck it, he might have problems giving it away. Offer it to the mexicans for free. They may charge him to take it.

Fools and there money.

[bluecollar2]

10. I'm putting my money into swampland in Florida

But I am open to beachfront property in Arizona also.

[Blue Owl]

11. Wow -- where do I send my check???

[Kid Berwyn]

12. Call Mexico.

I heard a Scheissnozzle say, just the other day…

[Throck]

13. Will he ship it?

[OkSustainAg]

14. Recycle it into a bridge.

Would be the best use.