Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives 292
Sockatume writes "Residents in Craigavon, South Africa complained of '[h]eadaches, nausea, tinnitus, dry burning itchy skins, gastric imbalances and totally disrupted sleep patterns' after an iBurst communications tower was put up in a local park. Symptoms subsided when the residents left the area, often to stay with family and thus evade their suffering. At a public meeting with the afflicted locals, the tower's owners pledged to switch off the mast immediately to assess whether it was responsible for their ailments. One problem: the mast had already been switched off for six weeks. Lawyers representing the locals say their case against iBurst will continue on other grounds."
"The case will continue...." (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"The case will continue...." (Score:5, Funny)
It also proves that America doesn't have a monopoly on legal stupidity and that we still export something ;)
it's peanut allergy waves (Score:4, Funny)
see my gorgeous little child was at a restaurant and a heartless cruel waitress walked by with a thai peanut sauce dish and well my child got a good whiff of it. and now as a result every day for the last 3 months his intellectual development and emotional focus has been totally off. the swine flu shots have only made it worse, i swear he is borderline autistic now
i've gone to the principle of his school and insisted that all children's bags be searched and sniffer dogs bought in for the sake of peanuts destroying our children, but he babbled something about correlation and causation- completely uncaring and unsupportive!
to make matters worse afterwards i went to mcdonalds and ordered a big mac and felt nauseous a few weeks later. i didn't know what it was until a friend of mine told me there is a bad case of celiac disease going around. environment destroying corporations just don't care that they give people celiac disease and warm the atmosphere with cell phone waves. now i have to be on a gluten free diet for the rest of my life!
Re:Ha! FAIL! (Score:5, Funny)
as it turns out, these dudes have egg allergies so being proved wrong is causing more symptoms.
There is only ONE explanation... (Score:2, Funny)
Withdrawal (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly they are suffering not from the effects of radiomagnetic radiation, but from withdrawal! Quick, turn it back on!
oh, put your head in the oven (Score:4, Funny)
spray a giant amount of oven cleaner in the oven, and, most importantly, because this is what makes it work: put the magnetic bands on your wrists immediately. stick your head in the oven and take a few deep centering breaths while chanting the sacred mantras. i find myself going on deeply spiritual vision quests for a few minutes. i wake up on the floor and i can feel the magnetic bands vibrating in the negative chi energy dimension aligning with the crystals
Flu vaccine (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Correlation != Causation (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ha. (Score:5, Funny)
Incidentally! Incidentally! Incidentally! Incidentally!
Re:"The case will continue...." (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ha. (Score:5, Funny)
The Fringe Tower...... (Score:3, Funny)
Reminds of the Radio tower in Fringe last night that was being used to mess with people's senses to make ugly mutants look normal. Maybe the answer lies in Mutating the residents so they HAVE to live under it otherwise they will be shunned as weird looking mutants......
Re:LOL, ROFLMAO, ha-ha, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Except now it's pedophiles and radio towers.
It's gonna be a fun decade for child care workers and HAM radio operators.
Re:You mean they can be embarrassed? (Score:3, Funny)
People claim to be Democrats all the time... what's the difference?
i like to slip a few niacin pills in their food (Score:3, Funny)
you know, like 4 of those 500 gram ones. odorless, tasteless, and colorless, but boy oh boy!: sure to bring on a huge case of the niacin flush and those itchy eye watering hives all over the body and the nausea. since they don't know what is going on, i tell them i poisoned them and they have 30 minutes to live and so they better tell me the truth about my ex or where the money is, etc. i got a few to admit some really hilarious felonies in that condition
it backfired once where the guy picked up the steak knife and was hellbent on getting his revenge before he "died", so i had to off him for real, but otherwise, when the massive flush of hives and sometimes vomitting recedes 3 hours later, my friends always get a good laugh out of it and think i'm so freaking hilarious you wouldn't believe it
Re:Flu vaccine (Score:3, Funny)
Great... first they put tracking RFIDs in the vaccines, now mercury?
Re:Ha. (Score:5, Funny)
There's a place where it IS a good idea?
Re:Correlation != Causation (Score:3, Funny)
they always claim their stupid metamoderation system is supposed to prevent this sort of thing, but it never has.
That is not true! If I had mod points, you be down to -1, Troll so fast!
Re:Faraday Cage (Score:3, Funny)
Looks both ways.
Yes.
Re:Ha. (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, EN is my 3rd language, and with this you sometimes get such linguistic atrocities...
No worries - incidents happen.
The sun (Score:2, Funny)
My vote is we work on a plan to put out the sun, the number one source of electromagnetic radiation.
Who's with me?
Re:"The case will continue...." (Score:2, Funny)
but since you can cook an egg with two cellphones then i must assume this was cooking those people. maybe six week was what their bodies needed to cool down and restore the coocked cells.
the judge simply does not have a reliable technical advisor, like the internet.
Re:Ha. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Correlation != Causation (Score:5, Funny)
Really? I thought all slashdot comments WERE just a variant on agreement or disagreement.
Interesting: Agree, and you have stated your opinion as "fact"
Overrated: Disagree, and you have stated your opinion as "fact"
Informative: Agree, and I didn't know that fact!
Insightful: Agree, and I DID know that fact!
Troll: Disagree, but it's the first time I have seen that argument
Redundant: Disagree, and I have already seen that argument
Offtopic: Disagree, and your point didn't really make much sense
Underrated: Agree, but your point didn't really make much sense
Flamebait: Disagree, and you stated your comment in a particularly offensive way
Funny: Agree, and you stated your comment in a particularly offensive way
Re:Ha. (Score:5, Funny)
I thought it would be
Nobody inspects the African Acquisition!
Re:"The case will continue...." (Score:4, Funny)
you can cook an egg with two cellphones
Step 1: fill 2-qt saucepan with water
Step 2: add 1 egg, 2 cellphones
Step 3: cover, turn on heat, and bring to a boil
Step 4: when water boils, turn off heat and let stand for 10 mins
Step 5: rinse egg and cellphones with cold water, remove shells, and eat
Re:Correlation != Causation (Score:3, Funny)
Ah, no. I disagree on both counts.
(1) You now have to go out of your way to turn the +1 bonus off. It's not something that you must turn on for each and every post. People just leave it on, and I don't expect otherwise.
(2) "Funny" doesn't give karma, but "Overrated" decreases karma. Instead of preventing someone from getting karma for their non-funny post, you're actually hurting their karma. That's why many here (not me) rate jokes as insightful instead (when they get modded down they will have neutral karma that way, instead of negative.) I only mod non-funny jokes down if they fall under one of the other categories (such as "Flamebait").
Re:"The case will continue...." (Score:5, Funny)
This idiocy also extends to the mysterious malfunctioning of any electronic device in the radio-phobe's houses!
True Ham Radio story - my mentor told me when putting up an antenna at home, put up the mast and antenna but deliberately DON'T connect a feedline to it or use it for a week or two.
Sure enough, two of the neighbors on my block came to complain of TV and telephone interference. I casually handed them a binocular so they could notice there was no wire to the bottom of the antenna, yet.
They sheepshly apologized and went away... Unlike these idiots who are persisting in their delusion.