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Moving the Border 🗺

Monday, May 10th 2021

Guy Boggan
May 10, 2021
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Hey,

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend!

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JON ROBERTS @TheJonnyR
Enjoying the weekend but also watching for the #ChineseRocket debris falling to Earth.
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(it landed accident free in the Indian Ocean btw)



Anyway,
C’mere to me…


🗺 🇧🇪 🇫🇷

Moving the French-Belgian Border

Inadvertently…


A Belgian farmer, frustrated by a stone on his land, dug it up and moved it 2.29m (7.5ft), also moving his perimeter fence slightly too.

Normally this might just piss off your farming neighbour, but in this case, he inadvertently moved an international border, making Belgium a little bigger and France a little smaller…

The out of position border marking stone was spotted by very eagle-eyed French men, amateur historians, who regularly walk along the border and enjoy checking each stone they encounter against original maps. It’s estimated the stone was moved a few months ago.

Image: Jean-Pierre Chopin

The farmer, naturally, has caused a bit of a stir and is now obligated, and has been formally asked, to move the stone back to its original position.

Should he refuse to comply, not only could he face charges but the Belgian foreign ministry might have to summon a Franco-Belgian border commission to resolve the dispute - something that has not been needed since 1930…

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fucsake @begorabejaysus
I knew he was small.... but holy fuck!
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this was the most insane stage of the pandemic
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Watch 📺

Enjoy this 40-sec clip, from 2010, of a reporter unintentionally making a no look half-court shot 🏀





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Think 🌊

4am is the hour where you’re either up really late or really early




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