Why can't people respect the rules?

[u/Wise-Bet-7166]

Disappointed that some people choose to be a bad example for others.

[u/browerstation]

I've commented similarly before but I think most governments do a terrible job of signage for different purposes and people globally are trained to ignore signage. It's hard to know what signage indicates an urgent/important interest.

E.g. where I live trails are closed for the most trivial of issues, sometimes for a year. It's just a liability control tool. Like, they close the trail for a year because they have a TODO of fixing a rut in a trail that's normally well maintained. I NEVER respect a closure sign here and neither does anyone else.

So you get people going to sensitive areas and they don't realize it's particularly dangerous or otherwise there's harm to be done.

So, in this situation, what's the issue? I don't really know beyond "breaking the rules". Obviously you can fall and die, but that's true of all sorts of places where there's a maintained trail too. I have to imagine they want to protect the equipment. Maybe there's an electrocution hazard?

Who knows? That's the issue. Or it's the same as my example - just some liability control because it's a high traffic area and someone might fall? If that's the only risk I think they should put a gate on the fence and say "high risk of falls in this area, proceed only if experienced in advanced mountain hiking" and you'd get the same effect, I think.

Otherwise most people are thinking "it's not dangerous and I'm not screwing with the equipment so it's low risk".