The tripoint perspective of the human cannonball story relates (vaguely) to the
fact that the several states of the Mexican union stop somewhere around or
slightly above the high-water mark on the coasts. Thus, wave-swept Mexican
beaches theoretically are under jurisdiction that is exclusively federal. This
creates a tripoint (of sorts) between the USA, the Estado de Baja California,
and Mexican federal territory near the trajectory of the human cannonballer.
The relative significance of such a tripoint in the grand scheme of things might
be subject to question, but some BoundaryPoint members have never met a tripoint
that they didn't love.
The main functional difference between the BoundaryPoint and BorderPoint groups
is the atmosphere that sometimes prevails in each.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "jimvandura" <jimvandura@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:27 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Questions Re: first known legal entry into usa at a
tripoint ..., etc.
> Hi! I am new here, and on the borderpoint list. So maybe that's why I don't
> see how this
> human cannonball can be flying over a tripoint. What kind of a tripoint would
> this be? I see
> the boundary all right but I don't get the (tri)point! (Does it have something
> to do with the
> vertical extension of sovereignty ... ?)
> Also, yesterday we mentioned some local Spanish tripoints on the
> borderpoint list, and
> today some of the same people from there have been discussing international
> borders
> here on the BoundaryPoint list. I don't get this either. The group blurbs led
> me to expect
> just the opposite!
> Would someone please explain what is going on?
>
> Cheers,
> Jimmy
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
>> http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/31869.html
>> human cannonball overflight photo looks to be more or
>> less exactly where the mexican federal maritime &
>> littoral territory ends & baja california state
>> territory begins
>> just on the mexican side of the fence
>> exactly 20 meters above the high tide line
>> as i recall
>>
>> & notice too how the new seawall construction last
>> heard from in
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18084
>> seems to be progressing
>> or may even have been completed already
>>
>>
>>
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