Posted on 10/11/2017 5:08:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dang !
If the 40’ hole is NOT a feature of the border defense system, maybe they should add it to the mix (on the Mexican side of the fence ;>)...
Sounds like we have a Winning prototype!
2000 miles of 40 foot holes. For the real thing, though, skip the hoists.
This sounds exactly like the news of the worker who fell down a 40’ hole the first day of construction a few weeks back.
It even reads the same.
First, it’s one of the poorest written articles I’ve read in a while.
Second, I don’t believe a guy falls forty feet and they let him go back to work.
40 foot deep holes at the wall would be a great deterrent.
It even reads the same.
My thoughts exactly.
Either we are both suffering from strong déjà vu, or this story is being run again. I doubt a second man fell into a 40 foot hole without injury.
From a few days ago with some 29 comments if anyone cares to scan thru them.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3590796/posts
I just posted the link to FR
He’s lucky they didn’t put the sharks in the hole yet.
Good ol Otay Mesa
The “let him go back to work” issue is an amateur way of trying to avoid a lost time accident.
First of all, while he may have violated some policy, there is no 40’ “hole” that doesn’t require a barricade preventing such a mishap. Good safety practices don’t appear to have been followed. Construction “not stopping” is a dumb thing — this is a perfect incident for a job-wide safety stand-down and it always looks dumb when you try to sweep such an accident under the rug.
A forty foot fall, even if down an embankment instead of vertical, is a near miss for a fatality. The on-site safety office should have reamed the superintendent a new one, but it looks like he has no management support.
But WAIT! Ca is always bragging THEY ALREADY HAVE A WALL
Wanna bet the 40 foot hole was part or an underground drug tunnel?
It was probably a 40’ deep hole that sloped. If you hit the slope right, you just slide down.
When I was a child, I fell down a cliff, but I hit a sloped edge that cushioned me and I didn’t get injured.
if ya don’t clean um out. they will eventually fill up.... defeating the reason for them.
Hire liberals to dig them, with specific instructions how to dig the way out.
They’ll then be bottomless.
My idea was either an elevated super train or a sea level canal. Canals are cheap with the equipment we have now and besides it generates revenue.
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