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CHICAGO —
The Chicago City Council is considering a measure that would allow businesses in the city to install non-lethal electric security fences.
The proposal would allow the fences if they don’t border residential or public areas, are surrounded by non-electric perimeter fences and bear posted warnings.
The Chicago Tribune says the fences send 7,000-volt jolts every 1.3 seconds. By comparison, a Taser delivers a 50,000-volt jolt 21 times a second.
The fences are allowed in California, and such Illinois communities as Bolingbrook, Elmhurst, Rockford and Schaumburg. They also are allowed at railroad facilities in Chicago.
via Chicago City Council considers electric fences – chicagotribune.com.
At first I thought that this would make the city look like a zoo… Gotta practice that speed reading 🙂 Anyway, this isn’t the worst idea ever, but it’s probbably just an introduction into something bigger…