Of what use is a wall if it can be climbed ? ...

[dogtag]

Why the top of these walls are flat so that illegals
can safely sit atop them whilst looking for safe place
to jump down mystifies me.
If I were the wall builder I would install closely spaced
steel spikes atop the wall plus cut inducing sharp edges
on the wall face. A barrier isn't a barrier if there is a way
over it, under it, or through it. These illegal immigrants
may be uneducated but they obviously attended the class
on border breaching.

[Vern Humphrey]

An old adage in the Infantry is, "Obstacles that are not covered by fire are useless."

[Allen]

Too many liberals would whine if the wall was electrified but razor wire could be placed on the top like prisons. The wall is on U.S. soil so either side of it is treaspassing. There is no U.S. side and Mexico side, at least for a distance.

A wall may only slow someone down but in most countries it is enough for their existing laws to be enforced and the invaders "dealt with".

[blackhawknj]

Obstacles can be used to channel assaults into ground more favorable to the defenders. What happened to the electrified fences used to corall cattle ?

[Allen]

What happened to the electrified fences used to corall cattle ?

I've tangled up with them. They are DC, use very little current and completely harmless but hurt like hell. They might affect a pacemaker though?

I've heard that you don't want to pee on them.

[Vern Humphrey]

I've tangled up with them. They are DC, use very little current and completely harmless but hurt like hell. They might affect a pacemaker though?

I've heard that you don't want to pee on them.

You heard right.

A neighbor had a huge whiteface bull that would get out and get into our heffer pasture. Young angus heffers can die trying to give birth to whiteface calves, so this was a sore spot with my dad. The neighbor built stronger fences -- the bull knocked them down. He electrified them -- the bull knocked them down. He had learned to listen for the click and then hit the fence. Someone suggested a ring in his nose -- didn't work. Someone else suggested hanging a length of chain from the ring. The bull disappeared. The owner came over to our place, but the bull wasn't there.

A couple of days later, he was out in his pasture. There was a gully there, with trees in it, and the fence ran across the gully. He heard a noise and went down to investigate. There was the bull, lying there, with his chain tangled in the barb wire and lying across the electric wire. Every time the fence clicked, the bull would jerk and moan.

When he let him free the bull walked all around the pasture, wearing a path about ten feet from the fence. He wouldn't get any closer, and he never broke out again.