In a message dated 26/09/99 19:51:12 EST, jlangdon@outer.net writes:
> My test was "well out of reach of a teenager standing on top of his pickup".
> I decided on this test after my neighbor reported seeing a truckload of
> teenagers hop over the fence at my remote site one night in May about high
> school graduation time. They announced loudly, apparently to impress their
> lady friends, that they were "either going to climb it or cut it down". My
> neighbor, who is a wonderful but firm fellow, asked them to leave. When
> they did not, he applied the "can you hear me jack the slide of my 12
> gauge?" test, which the youngsters passed with flying colors. They went
> back over the fence like healthy deer.
May madness? I found a high school card like you find in graduation
announcements stuck in the top of a tower where I was changing the lights
once. And while rare, vandalism can cause a catastrophe too. A simple knife
or razor blade can cut through Phillystran with no trouble at all.
Cheers, Steve K7LXC
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