On Thursday 19 July 2007, jdow wrote:
>From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>> Chuckle. Now in that case, a tall chain link fence, with a few "Beware
>>> of
>>> Mickey" placards might be in order.
>>
>> It is a 6' fence, variously wood and chain link. And I used to have LOTS
>> of problem with people ignoring the "private property" signs on the other
>> side and jumping the fence any time they wanted a convenient path from one
>> place to another. I finally planted Jeruselem Thorn bushes at the major
>> traffic points, and dropped the trimmings (these are prolific plants)
>> along the base of the fence in other traffic places. This stopped the
>> "jump over the six foot fence" traffic after about a month.
>
>Longer than that. I kept the jump spots "fed".
>
>For those who don't know about Jerusalem Thorn we're talking about the
>Mexican variety, Parkinsonia Aculeata.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsonia_aculeata
>
>This is a NASTY thorn bush. And the Wikipedia description underestimates
>the thorn size. The trees we had would produce thorns about an inch to
>an inch and a half long that would go through tennis shoe soles. They
>would embed deeply into hard rubber soled walking shoes that had 3/4"
>soles. Around each randomly curved thorn at its base were a collection
>of little thorns about 2 to 4 mm long.
>
>It was a pain, literally, to cut off branches and then pull them loose
>from the other branches. It was only safe to carry a small number at a
>time lest their weight force thorns through thick leather work gloves.
>But I did keep the "traps" seeded. And I am nasty enough to get giggles
>when I think of the reactions of those who jumped the fence into a
>bunch of these monsters.
>
>(Now we have a second fence across the "front" of the property so the
>short cut doesn't work so well, particularly with the easy gate from the
>jump spots seems to have gotten jammed in a Santana wind storm a couple
>years ago.)
Santana wind? I'll bet... And that has worked so well that no effort to
repair it has been spared. :)
>{^_-}
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