Joshua Bearman wrote a story for LA Weekly about a game of "border volleyball," in which players on either side of a two-story fence separating the US and Mexico hit a ball back and forth.
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."
