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Build a 300-Mile Wall Around SF During Burning Man

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This is not an effective Kickstarter parody because the financial goal is actually somewhat reasonable.

Are you saying that we should do it?

Are you saying that we shouldn't?

Wait, this is just the Maginot line all over again.

Surely they'll come back through Medford, go down through Crescent City where they will ferry out from Mendocino in elaborately colorful barges with high artistic merit, only then to dock back into the bay and storm the city with their DJ tanks once again.

Have we learned nothing from WW2 and the battles of ancient Greece?

Another option: build the wall around Burning Man after it's started.

I'd rather build a wall around San Francisco before Burning Man so that us folks between SF and Black Rock don't get flooded with San Franciscans.

The "quarter mile stretch of wall all to your own" reward already has over 16k backers. How are they planning to deliver when the wall is only 300 miles?

Every seen that "Office Space" documentary, err, I mean comedy, where the poor TPS report programmer has like eight bosses all telling him what to do because he works solely for them? Well...

Obviously they'll just have to build multiple concentric walls. This will also sap the morale of any burners who are ambitious enough to climb over the outer one.

The tunnel under the midwest project reminded me of the SF to NY burrito delivery project: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel.

http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_t...

After this one is successfully funded and completed, may I suggest building a wall around Austin during the next SXSW?

One of the few parodies that actually made me laugh IRL.

I wonder if almost $2M raised are also a parody.

It's $2B

It's two billion, but yes, it's a parody. First this is literally the only thing on the site. There are some others at the bottom but if you try to click on them or really almost anything else it says:

The volume of pledges has overwhelmed our system and we’re unable to process your pledge at this time. We’re attempting to fix the problem as quickly as possible but half our developers have taken advantage of our unlimited vacation policy to finish their LED mindfulness art car.

In the meantime, please share your support of this campaign with your community to help them reach their goal. Namaste.

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And if you are for some reason interested here is the code they are using to generate the number of donations/the amount. The number of donations is just the number of seconds since July 29th and the donation amount is just 2926 times that. It updates every random amount of time

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Sorry new here. Can't get it to take javascript. I guess they're worried about code injection.

The picture of the crowd at the wall is worth it.

If this doesn't get funded, perhaps we can start a "Burn SF to the ground. Again." campaign.

Just have Cthulhu destroy it, followed by San Francisco itself.

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