It's been a couple weeks since this area was locked down for security. All the fences are gone, and cops are back to regular numbers. The one thing that remains is the security seals on the manholes.
I've been walking by these for weeks, and decided it was worth further investigation. First of all, there are hundreds of these things (I didn't count them) in a multiple block area around the convention center that hosted international delegations for the nuclear summit.
At a regular walking height, you hardly notice them. If you bend over to look, they look like this:
When you get closer for a nice shot, they take on some texture:
If you try to pry one up, you notice immediately that instead of being like a paper or tape label, they are a stretchy rubber. You curl your fingers underneath and keep pulling until the stretching gives way to tearing.
And they have a little lingering sticky glue on the torn edges, but are otherwise just some flappy rubber sheets with perforations.
