Attention Brick Fall

Bricks can fall when improperly attached. It is in the nature of a brick to fall, like rain and snow, although there is no clothing that will protect you from falling bricks. Bricks have been used to build walls, so much that they are also used decoratively. It is not clear to me why the bricks used decoratively aren’t made of lightweight material, which would make their falling safer. Say they were made of Styrofoam, they could double as insulation.

If you stare at a sign that says “Attention Brick Fall,” do you increase your chances of being hit by a falling brick? Your best strategy, upon reading the words on the sign, may be to start watching the bricks on which the sign is posted, and the surroundings. There may be a demolition crew behind the wall, ready to swing a huge wrecking ball towards the bricks, which will inevitably fall. After all, the best strategy may be to run away from the sign.

Bricks do fall. Have you ever wondered if bricks were transported by planes, how dangerous our lives would be? Container ships are known to lose whole containers in storms. What about cargo planes? Would they drop bricks, if upon realizing that the plane’s cargo is too heavy, its crew started unloading them?

Finally, there may be bricks orbiting the earth that could reenter at any moment, maybe through a hole in the ozone layer. Come to think of it, falling bricks may be the prime cause of holes in the ozone layer. There may be a market for satellites watching for falling bricks, and shooting them before they go any further.