04-16-2017, 12:44 PM
(04-16-2017, 12:31 PM)KevinL Wrote: The average member of the public has, I think, a loose relationship with this kind of prohibition. If it's solidly closed and clearly looks dangerous, they will gladly keep out. But if the fence has gaps, the ground is level and relatively unobstructed, and it's a much faster path to where they are going - well, it's hard to convince them not to.
Well said. I would further suggest that maybe part of the problem is precisely that people have an understanding of what certain words mean, and when they constantly see things labelled as “active” construction sites which plainly are not (on the weekend, say), they go more with what appears safe than with what the sign says. Most of the time they’re not even wrong. Certainly in this case I’m having trouble envisioning a viable argument that the people in the picture are actually behaving in an unsafe manner. In this particular case, does the fence even block off the entire site, or only certain directions of entry?