Posted on 08/02/2020 8:44:21 PM PDT by BeauBo
Some spikes on the desert floor right below would kinda skewer some of these weebles ;)
“The Dems in Congress will scream the wall is killing people, it must be removed.”
Yes, I agree we should anticipate that, like the sun rising in the East.
For safety, we should have emotionally effective warning signs posted, and fund public awareness campaigns in Spanish highlighting the tragic consequences.
Most of all, a thoroughly unreasonable amount of highly visible concertina will effectively keep people from trying, or getting to, heights that are just unsafe for them to be.
Lets call the concertina “Safety Wire”. No bollards should be left in an unsafe bare state, that might tempt children, or the mentally challenged.
The problem right now is that it is monsoon season in Arizona so the flood gates that are built into the fence are all open. We spend a lot of time during shift driving from one opening to another in order to push people back south.
“The average height of a fatal fall is 10 feet.”
18 foot bollards used to be considered the “over the top” option for the toughest segments of the border.
Now 30 feet has become the new normal, for the new Wall System.
Those are effective barriers.
Sorry about your luck AMIGO! /s
So, long story short, 14+ stories gets the job done.
The bodies (alive or dead) should be left where they are or pitched back over the wall into Mexico...
Picking up bodies near the base of the old border barrier was not really much of a thing. It is now becoming a thing.
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Like birds around wind turbines?
To borrow an idea from someone upthread, maybe large carpets of steel spikes could be designed to block those gates when they have to be open. Would still allow water to flow (presuming the water doesn’t get deep enough to swim over them).
Too bad.
I think I will enjoy a nice Riesling with my desert.
“The problem right now is that it is monsoon season in Arizona so the flood gates that are built into the fence are all open.”
Full bollard-strength automated gates that are only opened when the water is flowing hard would be big expenses. I’m not sure if they would work reliably with debris. At least they could stay closed more of the time.
Earlier warning of approaching activity from deep on the Mexican side might help - long range surveillance tech covering approaches to the gates. (possibly ground sensors somehow?).
Maybe some secondary type of gate or barrier could be added to impede/delay people from getting through the heavy open gates, but still fail safe in a flood (burst open, float up, be quickly unlocked manually or remotely)
The skeletons of previous unfortunate souls have historically served as a powerful reminder of the danger of continuing on toward a variety of dangerous pursuits (see: any movie involving Indiana Jones).
Leave them there.
Nominal compared to a lifetime of gimmes.
Was it counted as Covid 19?
We have senors, cameras and radars watching the openings as best they can but we only have so many agents. It is a game of cat and mouse as they will send people through in one spot so that they can draw us away from another so that they can run more traffic.
What you land on is critical. There are the odd stories of skydivers surviving falls because they landed in something soft. Concrete will pretty much do one in since there is no give.
I guess some of them will see it as a challenge initially.
It shouldn’t take long for word to spread
Thanx for the new info.
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