On Sunday, April 10, 2016 at 9:19:06 PM UTC-4, Oren wrote:
On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:08:51 -0700 (PDT), Roy
wrote:

Why in gawd's name would anyone paint a chain-link fence?

A big dummy?

Working in a factory, we found that painting machine guards (usually perf metal) flat black let you see right through them and check operations, while safety yellow just caught your eyes and made it impossible to see through. The same might apply to chain link.