From Auto Blog:
Dump trucks filled with sand will guard New Year's Eve revelers in NYC
On Saturday night, over two million people will crowd into New York City's iconic Times Square to say good riddance to the no good, very bad year known as 2016. And after worrying holiday attacks in Nice, France, and Berlin, Germany, keeping the revelers safe is job one for the Big Apple's government. Its solution? Dump trucks with a lot of sand in the bed.
When you tune into ABC, MTV (do people still watch MTV for New Year's?), NBC, or some other network's NYE coverage, don't be surprised to see large white or orange Department of Sanitation trucks filled with sand and conspicuously placed around Times Square. The trucks, based on our perusing of the Department of Sanitation's website, handle tasks like snow removal and salt or sand spreading as a day job. But for NYE, they're on security duty.
When filled with sand, the 16-ton trucks nearly double in weight. Considering ISIS carried out attacks in Germany and France by plowing trucks into crowds, the hulking DSNY trucks are a perfect mobile barricade that should give any plotters pause. And if a terrorist – home-grown or otherwise – attempts to detonate a bomb, the huge trucks are fully capable of absorbing blasts and shrapnel.
Very clever idea and cheap to implement.
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