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To: EMI_Guy
Those cuts required an Oxy torch and a diamond bladed industrial circular saw. And it appears to me that the saw and torch cuts were from each side of the bollards. So yeah, "they took marshaling of resources at this breach point".
145 posted on 01/11/2019 7:16:05 AM PST by numberonepal (WWG1WGA)
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To: numberonepal
Those cuts required an Oxy torch and a diamond bladed industrial circular saw. And it appears to me that the saw and torch cuts were from each side of the bollards. So yeah, "they took marshaling of resources at this breach point".

There is a scene in the Tom Hanks movie about Sully the heroic airline pilot who landed in the Hudson River (IIRC). There is a government hearing, and Sully is on the spot for not actually taking his plane back to the airport. They ran simulations, you see, and the FAA had pilots in Sully's situation and they managed to get back to the airport after all their engines failed -- so why didn't Sully?

Hanks, as Sully, gets them to admit that their test pilots knew what the problem was going to be ahead of time, immediately turned toward the airport at the first moment of trouble (spending no time at all on problem analysis), had no lives at risk during their action -- and still had to practice the maneuver 17 times before they managed to land at the airport.

Political activists like to state that "this is easy" -- but they have to create absolutely ideal circumstances to "prove it".

I trust the Fence. I don't think it will be easy to get through.

164 posted on 01/11/2019 8:11:21 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: numberonepal

Thicker steel and rebar in the concrete and you won’t be doing that with hand tools.


202 posted on 01/11/2019 9:29:50 AM PST by AndyJackson
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