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> where a 14-year old with a soldering iron and $20 in parts can jam 12 lanes of traffic Well... not to be argumentative or anything, but a 14-year-old with a
by commandlinefan 8y ago
> where a 14-year old with a soldering iron and $20 in parts can jam 12 lanes of traffic
Well... not to be argumentative or anything, but a 14-year-old with a smaller budget could easily cause similar chaos on a busy highway by, say, rolling a heavy object down a hill onto it or throwing some spiked gardening tools onto the road at night. Although they don't generally do that, protesters do pretty much the same thing (that's how we all first started hearing about BLM, recall).
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- zkms 8y ago> but a 14-year-old with a smaller budget could easily cause similar chaos on a busy highway by, say, rolling a heavy object down a hill onto it or throwing some spiked gardening tools onto the road at night. Doing that puts them at severe risk of detection and capture, doesn't scale well, is pretty easy to remedy, and dealing with foreign objects on roadways is pretty easy (people drive around them, and maintenance personnel and/or police move them off the road) and needs to be because it happens all the time without any malicious actors involved.
- mikec3010 8y agoPunks throwing shit off the overpass definitely couldn't stop a 6 lane freeway in both directions, but yes I see your point.