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Originally Posted by August
I'm using Steves Salt Lake City building code for an example here but I imagine it's similar to other jurisdictions.
slcilp.ci.slc.ut.us...
4. Special Design Regulations: No strand of barbed wire shall be permitted less than six feet (6') high. No more than three (3) strands of barbed wire are permitted. The barbed wire strands shall not slant outward from the fence more than sixty degrees (60o) from a vertical line. No barbed wire strand shall project over public property. If the barbed wire proposed slants outward over adjoining private property the applicant must submit written consent from adjoining property owner agreeing to such a projection over the property line.
Besides, three little strands of regular barbed wire isn't much of an obstacle regardless of which way it's facing. That's why prisons (places actually designed to keep people in) look like this
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We're talking Federal property here that isn't really subject to any local building codes. Most military bases consist of property owned solely by the government. Usually any sensitive areas that require fencing will not border on private property. I can cite the ammo dump on Fort Knox as an example. It is deep within the base and it has the type of fencing pictured above surrounding it and guards armed with sawed off shotguns loaded with deer slugs. The guards have standing orders to shoot and kill anyone found in an area they are not authorized to be in. No questions asked.
FEMA being tasked with upgrading these old military bases, for whatever unknown purpose, seems a bit shady in my book.
If you read HR 645 and the criteria laid out for those bases it will kind of blow your mind.
Those plastic coffins that have been referred to...
are not of the single person variety. They're large enough to hold six adult bodies. So, if you're going to die in some natural disaster, I hope you don't mind sharing your final resting place with a few strangers. Or maybe it's the most efficient method of disposing of entire families at once. Who knows?
