In local news: stupid people are still stupid.
“The safety factor is just monumental,” Hughes said. “We just don’t think children should live under a cell phone tower, or anybody, for that matter.”
There are really only two ways for a cell phone tower to be dangerous to a human being. They would have to climb the tower and fall off, or they’d have to climb the tower and camp out directly in front of the microwave antenna. The microwave oven which is undoubtedly sitting in this person’s kitchen is potentially far more dangerous, as it actually produces far more microwaves than a cell phone tower, and they can be prone to leakage.
If cell phone towers were so damn dangerous to be around, one would think people who are standing around under them or hanging off of them all day every day would be showing some sort of associated health problems. Well, I know someone who spends that kind of time around towers. He happens to live in my house, and he’s been doing it for something like twelve years now. He’s as healthy as he’s ever been.
I bet you every person at that meeting had a cell phone. Everyone loves their cell phones. No one wants towers or antennas. Lin told me about this one time a neighborhood was griping about a tower going up, and at the meeting, they were all sitting around complaining about it into their cell phones. Entirely too typical.
I suspect that in a few years time it will finally be discovered that a small number of people have allergic reactions to being too close to a mobile phone mast. That is how the endless complaints seem to me. Perhaps then I can object to my neighbors choice of garden plants producing pollen I’m allergic to?
It’s possible there are some people it would effect, but seems to me, since there have been studies, that if it was something that was dangerous for the general masses, we’d be hearing about it by now. Cell phones aren’t new anymore.
Oh, how I would love to be able to dictate would could and could not be planted. I’d start by insisting the various tree organizations in town stop handing out free elm trees.