When I was in Ireland in 1990, I saw several walls topped with broken glass. The most notable one was a Catholic monastery!
Posted by on May 11, 2007 at 3:24 PMYou must all be young! Glass along the top of factory walls was normal in England when I was young.
Posted by Stephanie on May 11, 2007 at 11:33 AMI've seen this throughout Latin American countries. Even around really nice hotels. It's interesting because it seems to work just as well as any other security system and even works when the power goes out.
Posted by Anon on May 10, 2007 at 7:48 PMWhen I went to Costa Rica about 8 years ago with my then girlfriend to visit her family, they (and most of the homes in the village) had this same setup.
Posted by Jason on May 10, 2007 at 1:30 PM




Yep, that's vulgar enough here in Portugal too.
Posted by Gil on May 22, 2007 at 2:43 PMI always hate the solution because it really doesn't work if you want to pass over the dam wall, but can be dangerous if you are unware of it, to innocents that is. Or animals.
It's a stupid jerks thing.