“No, you are free to stay as long as you like. Especially if you are doing free dialysis for some of our residents. In that case, we actually invite you to stay. With us.” “I need to stay with this RV. It is a bit large to move into someone’s driveway” “You should see our driveway!” So we moved in with Beavis and Butthead — who are actually not at all like the TV characters — in a secluded compound a bit closer to the dam. Getting the LV up the dirt driveway going fairly vertically into the hills was a notable undertaking, but we offloaded most of the provisions and transported them with the trucks after getting the LV in place. We ultimately had a very scenic view overlooking the valley, which the patients enjoyed in spite of having very little idea where they were.
BARRIERS The perimeter of Boardwalk had to be defended well enough to prevent a breach, and without causing serious harm to any aggressor. We wanted to avoid violence, but we needed to be immovable without our consent. A cross between the Himalayas and André the Giant. A number of solutions to this defense do not work: threatening lethal violence will not deter certain aggressors; tranquilizers are not like in the movies and can be both ineffective and deadly; knock-out gasses would be great, but are similarly unreliable; and finally weapons like tasers need to be aimed and fired at a potentially overwhelming number of aggressors. What we needed was a kind of ‘riot control’ from a position inside the riot. That matches an all-to-common situation in the United States: prisons. - 95 -
