No physical barriers on Lakeshore to prevent someone from walking into traffic. No physical barriers on all those condo balconies to prevent someone jumping onto the Gardiner, etc. etc.
The balconies I've seen have some kind of fencing. Of course, a determined person can climb over the fencing.
True.... Never the less with the summer vacation season upon us it won't be long before newsfeeds will be reporting 3 drunk guys in a fishing boat drownings across cottage country
Like the Guelph couple that went kayaking on the Credit River last March. Freezing cold water, no life jackets, no spray skirt and no dry suit... natural selection at its core.
Or not walking near the waterfront when you're blitzed out of your mind or not getting blitzed in the first place?
There is no barrier that is going to completely stop people from falling into the water. Unless we're prepared to totally cut off access to the water with a barbed wire fence. People like this drunk kid are probably going to find a way around it anyway. Given that there are hundreds of thousands (maybe millions) of people that walk on the waterfront every year and don't fall in, I don't think this is big problem.
Indeed, for many years after World War I, Harvard College had a swimming test graduation requirement after a number of recent graduates drowned during World War I when the ships they were on were torpedoed or mined and they were unable to swim.
People can still trip and crack their head open on a concrete dome. We should dump a shit load of Jello powder into Lake Ontario! At least if you fall in, you'll taste good.
