This user-friendly approach did not imply that grid-tampering went 
ignored, or that such activities were approved of. You could walk through the 
grid whenever you chose by shoving a few pods out of the 
way —unless Royal Security had told the pods to electrocute you 
or blast you into chum. If so, they would politely warn you before doing it. 
Even when they were in a more passive mode, though, the aerostats were watching 
and listening, so that nothing got through the dog pod grid without becoming an 
instant media celebrity with hundreds of uniformed fans down in Royal Joint 
Forces Command.