Posted on 06/01/2018 7:08:29 PM PDT by BeauBo
Yeah...
Sure...
Well, I should have said forget about FREE climbing that monster. You could get over with a cherry picker or construction crane as well. But the bottom line is that design effectively eliminates free climbing.
More than half of the people who fall from a height of thirty feet, will die from the impact. Those who survive, are not OK. Six feet up without a finger hold is a showstopper, as is a barrel top of that width. The USSOCOM commandos testing the prototypes found it very difficult to even get a grappling hook or weighted rope up over the top after very many attempts.
Only specialized teams using equipment will go over such an obstacle - Jose SixPack and his family will have to go elsewhere.
If that kind of barrier goes in, the Border Patrol in that sector will become lonely and bored like Maytag repairmen.
How far can a person cast a lure?
A weighted LINE that pulls a heavier rope over is quite easy to do.
Once the heavy thing is over; a few folks on the ground could pull another to the top quite quickly; I'd guess.
Launch your throw weight over a tree limb with great accuracy. Vertical distances of over 100' are easily achieved, so those big tree jobs are a snap with a little practice. ...
Nothing is impregnable.
But that beast will just deter most people. Thirty feet high is the roof of a three story building - almost a fourth story windowsill. It is a dizzying height. Few people would attempt such a climb. Getting over the huge barrel top requires relying totally on the rope, while your weight keeps it pressed down, and switching to another rope secured in the other direction. You risk falling to your death on either side. It is more of a job for a circus acrobat or Tom Cruise's stuntman, than a farm laborer, or one of the guys in front of the Home Depot.
The highest barriers today are eighteen feet. Almost no one who falls from eighteen feet will die from it - people overwhelmingly walk away from it. Thirty feet kills most, and the injuries are correspondingly more gruesome.
Along with that barrier, there is patrol road for fast police response, and typically lights, direct observation by high magnification cameras (as folks first begin to approach the barrier in Mexico, with their bundles of rope), and sensors that serve as alarms, in case the attention of monitors lapses.
In dense urban areas, getting over the first barrier only gets them into the no-man's land of the enforcement zone, where they are caught between two such barriers. In rural areas, they are likely detected, and engaged in a long range chase with them on foot and Border Patrol in vehicles, subject to tracking by aerial drones.
It is hard to get a sense of the imposing nature of these barriers from a picture - they tower above the pedestrian like a cliff. More than the top ten feet provide no finger or toehold, and the girth of the barrel top is far to great to grip. The large obstacle at the top is key to this design, simply making a straight climb up a pole twelve feet higher would be of marginal utility.
These barriers dwarf the pedestrians.
But; it'll ONLY work if the USofA is committed to STOPPING them; instead of just slowing them down by making it harder.
3 pillared approach.
A physical barrier
Active sensors (cams, drones, seismic, eyes&ears etc...)
Troops, patrols, OP’s and LP’s
I would like to include minefields, but that probably wouldn’t be legally acceptable.
Boo hoo; the poor dears have been here for 20 years and not caused any trouble.
Too bad. The poor dears have been here for 20 years and not done a DAMNED thing to try to become a LEGAL citizen!
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