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This narrow gauge fencing is showing up more and more. Some security
expert has figured out how easy it is to fit your foot into standard
cyclone fencing as footholds to climb over. Your shoe won't fit into
these small holes. In order to gain traction to climb, particularly
with the slick plastic coating on this fence, you need something to
prevent your foot from slipping. Fortunately College of Alameda has
provided large wood chips, right there below the fence, that you can
stuff together to stairstep up the fence. Note: I don't normally tell
people exactly how to evade security, just that I routinely do it personally.
On my soapbox, I would hope that it would not be necessary to evade
security at this publicly funded facility (and if it is not being used,
what a waste it is). This should be open to the public.
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It took me
a while to add all this up. When I first arrived at this track, I had to figure
out how to scale the narrow gauge security fencing. I'll tell you how to do
it below. As I was taking the wide shot I thought it was cute to have some geese
roaming the (empty) track. They sure seemed tame, like they own the place. Just
days earlier I had been at the State JC Track Championships and while nearby
Laney College finished a close second, there was no representation from men
or women from College of Alameda. Now I look at the facilities. Other than the
High Jump pad, there are no Field Event facilities here. As I toured, the track
that looks so nice on a wide shot, is disgusting close up. It is covered in
. . . goose byproducts. So much it is obvious this track is not being cleaned.
Incomplete facilities, high security fencing, unmaintained track and no track
team--hey, this is an unused track. They built an expensive Mondo track as a
buffer to the soccer field! The geese DO own this track because, without wings,
the general public can't get in. What is more offensive is that I was contacted
by a high school on the island just about a mile away asking my advice on how
to fund a track on their inadequately sized campus so they could have somewhere
to train. There is a demand, there is a supply: Some communication should be
happening.
