Hello Gerhard,

>at>A continuous wall might help with a patrol strategy; when someone tries
>at>to cross, a motion-detector or similar device can alert border patrol as
>at>to where they need to fire some rounds.
>
>LOL. The Nazis already had plans for doing that without any men, but
> apparently dictionaries still don't know Selbstschuáanlage. But East
> Germany had them at their border, basically it's a directed anti-person
> mine firing horizontally. It cost 100.000 Mark East per kilometer to
> install them in the 70s, so you could expect around 200.000 US-Dollars per
> kilometer today. And apart from violating the "Convention on prohibitions
> or restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons which may be
> deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects", only
> 0,3% went off due to "border violations", the rest went off because of
> wildlife, lightning or during maintenance.

Rattlesnakes are migrants' best friends.  :)

--Lee

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