[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by AmyPrib

Actually Ken, there is no rule that states you cannot break the top of the vertical player station wall. The rule you may be thinking of addresses only the ball corral. (G28)
Therefore, if/when it happened at MWR, it should not have been penalized.

However, there is always the safety rule, and if something is deemed a safety hazard they will do something about it. But, in general, it's not illegal.
If you've got an arm or something dangling down over the wall trying to block the HP, that could be considered a safety hazard, but if you're a robot with a 2x ball in your arm, that happens to cross the top of the wall, it's ok.
If you've seen some of the HPs out there, it'd probably be a waste of time to try blocking them, and totally blocking their view with a blanket or something is illegal, due to being un-GP.

yes, this one:

<G06> A ROBOT will be disabled if the ROBOT operation is deemed unsafe.

so by extending your bot over the very expensive protective barrier that FIRST has provided for 'some apparent reason' you risk your bot being disabled

and 'deemed unsafe' is in the eyes of the ref - wanna play that game on the field? No reasonable person would think its ok for your bot to reach over the 'protective barrier' and say we are not doing anything unsafe.