Height requirements vary across states and countries, and may include additional rules such as requiring a white flashing strobe in the daytime and pulsating red fixtures at night. Structures over a certain height may also be required to be painted with contrasting color schemes such as white and orange or white and red to make them more visible against the sky.

Transmitter # 3 is down.

“It’s like mourning the loss of a loved one; I was hanging out there until midnight last night.”

remote outpost radio / live transmission

We are not afraid; we are watching.

He never used his home phone to discuss business and eschewed cellphones, communicating only with pagers and pay phones, and maintaining a list of some 20 locations at any given time where he knew he could be neither watched nor overheard, according to court papers.

“We are very relaxed, drinking coffee and water," she added. “They said they are making photocopies. We don’t know why.”

He once traveled in the trunk of a car to defeat surveillance, according to an account provided to investigators by an informer. He also routinely drove the wrong way down one-way streets, traveled up highway off-ramps, regularly switched cars and even rode a bicycle — sometimes traveling through parks into which cars could not follow — to lose his F.B.I. pursuers, according to court papers.

“There was no escape route, no tunnels, not even false rooms in the house in which to hide,” he said. “It makes you wonder: at what point did that extra degree of vigilance he had get dulled by routine?”

Blast walls and security checkpoints stick out because they are often painted in hot pink.

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