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Understanding why screened fences exist

Understanding why screened fences exist

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Understanding why screened fences exist

(upbeat music) - If you're not in the construction industry, this is your common view of a construction site. We have the fence up around the construction site to keep people like you out. So that's makes sense to most people. We don't want random individuals just walking around our construction project, and we don't want things getting stolen from our construction project. So that explains the fence, but what's up with the screen that makes it so you can't see what's going on inside? (slow organ music) Well, really, it's not that we don't want you to see what's going on inside, we just wanna keep you safe. So let me explain that. Construction projects are really interesting places and people like to take a look at what's going on and they like to go walk around and see what's going on. That's why we have the screen there. These construction projects are so interesting that in fact the courts have ruled them, what the attorneys call "An Attractive Nuisance". What that means is that if…

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