Just to prove that funny things happen in the Army too, especially when it comes to barriers...........
They never gave us electrified barriers in the days when I was a lowly Airtrooper. In fact, you needed both hands to hold the counterweights down, as a young Rupert discovered one morning when he insisted on receiving a complement from me.
Then there was the morning the Padre returned my salute mid-gearchange. In the resulting confusion he managed to stuff his Mini into a tree.