Agency goes for spikes on White House fence. Rules out moat.

[cali]

A moat around the White House was actually under consideration but was quickly ruled out.

You may recall in November 2014, a few months after a man jumped the White House fence, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) suggested to then-acting Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy that one solution to secure the grounds was a barricade of water.

But when a federal agency voted unanimously Wednesday morning on a temporary fence plan, a moat wasn’t an option. The agency approved adding steel spikes to the existing fence to fend off jumpers.

The National Park Service and the Secret Service gave presentations to the Commission of Fine Arts on long-term security improvements to the White House grounds that have been in the works since after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/04/16/agency-to-vote-for-spikes-on-the-white-house-fence-but-no-moat/

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. But without a moat, where do the alligators go?

And are they putting up bird netting to capture gyrocopters?

[UTUSN]

2. The moat is unavailable because it's in use at the Southern (only) border. n/t

[LiberalEsto]

3. How about a giant bird net over the grounds?

The drones and gyrocopters will get tangled up in it.

[cali]

5. but couldn't a dragon destroy it breathing flames?

[jeff47]

6. We'll have to make it out of mithril. (nt)

[geek tragedy]

4. No moat without sharks with fricking laser beams. nt