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(Yahoo)   Mexico launches War on Gum. Sounds silly until you realize the average square yard of sidewalk in Mexico City has 70 discarded pieces of gum stuck to it   (fe19.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com) divider line
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Broz_Tito
2009-01-07 3:24:59 PM  
They might stop the war on street cleaners first.
 
KIA
2009-01-07 3:52:55 PM  
Plus, gum doesn't shoot back or threaten your wives and children. It's genius!
 
gilgamesh23
2009-01-07 3:55:43 PM  
They need to talk to Singapore, ask them how they did it.
 
toddalmighty [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-01-07 4:05:40 PM  
Must be Chiclets.
 
vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2009-01-07 4:05:53 PM  
I hear there's a little bit of Juan Valdez in every piece.
 
sckonkh
2009-01-07 4:06:20 PM  
Talk about a bubble bursting...
 
Promnight_Dumpster_Baby
2009-01-07 4:06:23 PM  
Need to put it all in/on an alley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegum_Alley (new window)
 
NYZooMan
2009-01-07 4:06:48 PM  
Gum control.
 
dabbletech
2009-01-07 4:07:04 PM  
Not another gum control thread!
 
NorCalLos
2009-01-07 4:07:13 PM  
So, the poor children at the border selling it will now be terrorists?

/DNRTFA
 
TheShavingofOccam123
2009-01-07 4:07:34 PM  
how about a war on personal responsibility, manners and decency? i can't remember the last time i spit gum out except into a wrapper then tossed the wrapper in a garbage can. shiat.
 
dabbletech
2009-01-07 4:07:49 PM  

NYZooMan: Gum control.


Bastard!
 
ipsofacto
2009-01-07 4:08:54 PM  
Filthy gum chewers.
 
AnubisMan
2009-01-07 4:08:56 PM  

TheShavingofOccam123: how about a war on personal responsibility, manners and decency? i can't remember the last time i spit gum out except into a wrapper then tossed the wrapper in a garbage can. shiat.


The article is about Mexico.
 
tweekster
2009-01-07 4:09:05 PM  

KIA: Plus, gum doesn't shoot back or threaten your wives and children. It's genius!


You say that now, just wait until the cartels get involved.
 
JewZeppy
2009-01-07 4:09:26 PM  
Next time you're sitting at a red light take a good look at the road surface next to you.
 
Person Of Interest
2009-01-07 4:09:42 PM  
I initially read that as "War on Guam."
 
Fano
2009-01-07 4:10:07 PM  
They call it chicle. Chicle.
 
Mongo cut wood
2009-01-07 4:10:34 PM  
No pictures? I was hoping for the "Gum Shot".
 
NYRBill
2009-01-07 4:10:48 PM  
"Buddy, if you see gum on the ground it's not free candy"
 
JavaMoon
2009-01-07 4:11:20 PM  
Could this be considered a Bubblegum Crisis?

/obscure?
 
Xlr8urfark
2009-01-07 4:11:34 PM  

toddalmighty: Must be Chiclets.


Seriously, I must have been solicited to buy chicklets from starving little kids in the streets at least 100 times a day down there..
 
vernonFL
2009-01-07 4:11:56 PM  
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NorCalLos
2009-01-07 4:12:19 PM  
This is actually good. No need to worry about my girlfriend finding ABC gum stuck on anything within an arm's length of my bed. At least not when I'm in Mexico.
 
ihatedumbpeople
2009-01-07 4:13:01 PM  
If you instantly killed 1/2 the population of Mexico City it would stil be overpopulated.

/I've seen reports of close to 20 million..I think they gave up and just guessed.
 
mpfjr
2009-01-07 4:13:20 PM  

gilgamesh23: They need to talk to Singapore, ask them how they did it.
 
cksewell
2009-01-07 4:14:03 PM  
It is the American's spitting gum on Mexican sidewalks. They should build a giant wall along the Mexican/US border to keep us out.
 
vernonFL
2009-01-07 4:14:04 PM  
Tijuana: Come for the Chiclets.

Stay for the donkey show.
 
PullmyHair
2009-01-07 4:14:33 PM  
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/no mas!
 
fireclown
2009-01-07 4:14:54 PM  

JavaMoon: Could this be considered a Bubblegum Crisis?


Wow. I would never have thought you could actually use that anywhere.
 
cksewell
2009-01-07 4:15:00 PM  
eesh apostrophe error
 
Promnight_Dumpster_Baby
2009-01-07 4:15:07 PM  

vernonFL: TijuanaNuevo Laredo: Come for the Chiclets.

Stay for the donkey show.


/ftfy
 
assimilateur
2009-01-07 4:15:21 PM  
It still sounds silly, submitter.
 
que.guero
2009-01-07 4:15:33 PM  
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FarkinHostile
2009-01-07 4:16:19 PM  
gilgamesh23

They need to talk to Singapore, ask them how they did it.


The best part of Singapore outlawing gum is that when I was there in the Navy, if you had any gum the girls LOVED you. Better than coke to a stripper.

If you had Juicy Fruit you got Juicy Fruit, if you know what I mean.
 
Chester J. Lampwick
2009-01-07 4:16:22 PM  

gilgamesh23: They need to talk to Singapore, ask them how they did it.


Chewing gum? That's a paddlin'.
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sckonkh
2009-01-07 4:16:33 PM  

cksewell: It is the American's spitting gum on Mexican sidewalks. They should build a giant wall along the Mexican/US border to keep us out.


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Get this man a first class ticket to Washington
 
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2009-01-07 4:16:36 PM  
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Dorf11
2009-01-07 4:17:05 PM  

gilgamesh23: They need to talk to Singapore, ask them how they did it.


First they come for your gum, and then they don't let you urinate in the elevators.
 
toddalmighty [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-01-07 4:17:31 PM  
Seriously, I must have been solicited to buy chicklets from starving little kids in the streets at least 100 times a day down there.

One of the reasons I shant be returning there.
 
Big Beef Burrito
2009-01-07 4:17:35 PM  
Would you say they have a plethora of gum?
 
bwogle
2009-01-07 4:17:49 PM  
They can have my gum when they pry if off the bottom of my cold dead shoe!
 
slackinfux
2009-01-07 4:18:08 PM  
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Mexico have better things to worry about than discarded chewing gum? Oh like drug cartels leaving headless bodies all over or having gunfights in the middle of town?
 
Pseudocredible
2009-01-07 4:18:57 PM  
You can take their gum from their cold, dead sidewalks!
 
AshHousewares18
2009-01-07 4:19:55 PM  

slackinfux: Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Mexico have better things to worry about than discarded chewing gum? Oh like drug cartels leaving headless bodies all over or having gunfights in the middle of town?


Yeah but the people who discard their gum on the sidewalks don't fuel 98% of goverment officials with their blood soaked drug money.
 
downtownkid
2009-01-07 4:20:23 PM  
Not a big deal, it takes 100 pieces of Mexican gum to equal one American piece.
 
MooseBayou
2009-01-07 4:20:23 PM  
It's amazing how many kids surround you in the border markets, and try to sell you a pack of Wrigley's. Usually Big Red.

Never chews gum. Reminds me of a cow and her cud. Blech.
 
Tubesteak
2009-01-07 4:20:24 PM  
Too bad they don't have access to cheap labor to clean it up.
 
fireclown
2009-01-07 4:20:49 PM  

slackinfux: Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Mexico have better things to worry about than discarded chewing gum? Oh like drug cartels leaving headless bodies all over or having gunfights in the middle of town?


The thing is, you might be able to do something about the gum. Everyone does this kind of thing.
 
Lex Kitten
2009-01-07 4:20:56 PM  
Gross. I hate gum.

I'm not fond of masticating something that I have no intention of swallowing.
 
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