China Droll

Everybody loves a good fence, and when the erection of fences can coincide with job creation, what could be better? Here’s again an example from formerly sleepy backwater Pui O, now a hotbed of government job creation:

Fences, meant to keep water buffalo and other criminal cattle away from the many anal  well-manicured gardens the government has arranged here and there, are of course to be found all over Lantau; that is nothing new. But so far they have been about thigh-high (1 meter or so.) 

But as water buffalo are known more than anything for their ability to do high jumps, stronger measures are needed. Here we see an example of the new 2009 fence, now two meters high. It would have to be an evil and cunning water buffalo indeed who would be able to thumb its nose at the government this time! Well done, Hong Kong’s Government.

The fact that we now can’t see the bushes and flowers the fence is meant to protect is a small price to pay, wouldn’t you say? I call this another clear victory.