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- WiseWeasel, on 05/25/2008, -3/+195I'm future-sensitive, and I'm convinced of being harmed by new things I don't understand. Who do I sue to stop progress and force everyone to ride horses and read newspapers again?
- adml_shake, on 05/25/2008, -1/+142I'm allergic to hot clothed women at my office. I demand that they be required to wear only underwear or nothing at all.
- GrandmaSheila, on 05/25/2008, -11/+136And I'm subject to panic attacks in the presence of fundamentalist christians, can I get them banned from my workplace too? ;-)
- inactive, on 05/25/2008, -6/+130God some people just ruin it for the rest of us. No wonder everything is so expensive, businesses have to price in the possibility of getting sued by lazy stupid people.
- inactive, on 05/25/2008, -9/+125That's ridiculous like so many other things. It's like every individual is their own minority group wanting special treatment. Sensitive to WiFi and other signals? Go to Antarctica you *****!
- CDep, on 05/25/2008, -11/+114They should sue Al Gore for inventing the Internet.
- toastgodsupreme, on 05/25/2008, -1/+85I'm allergic to gravity. :( It's constant pull causes aches and pains on my joints when I'm upright for extended periods of time. It makes lifting large objects a strenuous task. It basically interferes in all my daily activities.
- str1fe, on 05/25/2008, -1/+53I wear blue shirts on Tuesdays, and all my friends wear red shirts. I feel I'm being discriminated against and demand monetary compensation.
- bpollay, on 05/25/2008, -2/+50This is happening in my hometown of Sebastopol, CA. We were about to get city wide free WIFI but some paranoid tinfoil hat wearing hippies shot it down. Luckily the city council is reconsidering the issue in a couple of months.
"The city of Sebastopol, Calif., was all set to offer free wireless Internet service. Then last week the City Council rejected the idea after several residents complained that the radio waves pose a health hazard. “I have had health challenges, and my body cannot handle Wi-Fi,” one resident was quoted as saying. “It gives me headaches and makes me very sick.”
As for the complainers, “I can only be glad that they weren’t alive when the city decided on electrification a century ago,” wrote Dale Dougherty on the blog of O’Reilly Media, a publisher of technology books that has its headquarters in Sebastopol (radar.oreilly.com). DAN MITCHELL"
-NY Times
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/loca ...
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080413/NEW ... - shadowmoose, on 05/25/2008, -9/+57Guess we should ban the selling of all wheat products on account of some people have wheat allergies.
- InspectorGadget, on 05/25/2008, -2/+48Many blind studies have confirmed that people that claim to be "sensitive" to electromagnetic radiation are no better at detecting it than control groups of unaffected people. Moreover, being allergic to wi-fi would be the least of their problems because every inch of the populated areas of the world is bathed in "electric fields" every second of every day. They're either extremely gullible or looking for easy money from a settlement and in either case should be mocked at every opportunity. $100 to the first person to hook up their router to a big directional antenna and point it at these nuts to chase them away from civilization.
- camintmier, on 05/25/2008, -2/+47I'm allergic to people who are "allergic" to wifi signals. When I'm around them I feel the sudden need to find a baseball bat and use their head as a practice tee.
- ElBeh, on 05/25/2008, -2/+46Water hurts me, therefore water should be banned.
- djstrat, on 05/25/2008, -0/+43It's called radio and these people should go back to the 1920s when Radio was something new... maybe they could have had it banned back then.
- BossKey, on 05/25/2008, -3/+40I'm allergic to a lot of things (really), but this is just bogus. If you're really "allergic" to wi-fi, you'll suffer in the presence of operating microwave ovens, cordless phones, Bluetooth headsets, or any other 2.4GHz source. Oh wait, you aren't suffering around those? Then you fail.
- inactive, on 05/25/2008, -2/+37My penis is claustrophobic. Can I walk in public without wearing pants?
- positron, on 05/25/2008, -4/+38Because your friend was not allergic to wi-fi. She was just mentally ill.
- nreynolds, on 05/25/2008, -0/+34***** BLUE TEAM!
- inactive, on 05/25/2008, -0/+32Wonder if the symptoms worsen with faster download speeds.
- Ghoztt, on 05/25/2008, -0/+32Uh... can we have some... you know... "scientific studies" to back these claims up with?
kthnxcry - jayb1rd, on 05/25/2008, -2/+34I thought the internet was a series of tubes. I am so confused.
- Hegemony, on 05/25/2008, -0/+31*****, you can't be allergic to radio waves. There's no immunological mechanism for it.
- Cruelapollo, on 05/25/2008, -0/+30Yeah, all one of them.
- Allik, on 05/25/2008, -0/+26Gravity is only a theory, prove it wrong and you are in the clear.
- redfox2600, on 05/25/2008, -0/+24Where the ***** do you get an access point that goes 100 miles?
- waxoff, on 05/25/2008, -1/+24I'm also electro-sensitive and live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I get chest pain which doesn't go away right away every time I enter an area LACKING WiFi signals. I demand equal access to public buildings. I therefore demand a strong WiFi signal in all public buildings so that I too may have equal access under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- adamgaudreau, on 05/25/2008, -2/+25What an unfortunate "allergy" to have at such a point in our country's time of technological growth. I'd hate to see what happens to them when WiMax hits.
- inactive, on 05/25/2008, -18/+40This kind of crap is hobbling us as a country. For the benefit of a few, everyone must suffer. This socialist crap is getting old. Allergic to wi-fi? Stay out of public buildings, use the internet on a WIRED connection. ***** idiot.
- novastar123, on 05/25/2008, -0/+22Hey, most students get sick when they goto school. Didnt you know that?
I got sick every time I walked in my school to, and it wasn't due to the Wi-Fi. It was due to the school. - buckrogers1965, on 05/25/2008, -0/+21Or when the sun shines emitting a blast of full spectrum radiation on them.
- Murdats, on 05/25/2008, -1/+21its like claiming some people are more sensitive to infra-red light.
its something the human body can not detect in any way, thus there is no way to be more sensitive to it.
the same goes for this, the universe is soaked in radio waves, why do you think we use radio telescopes, however you say some people may have adverse reactions to a few very specific narrow bandwidths? and this causes generic symptoms? - blast_flame, on 05/25/2008, -2/+22Its a very strong placebo effect, nothing more.
- mogebier, on 05/25/2008, -4/+24I only have 2 words to say to idiots like this:
1. *****
2. You - lostngone, on 05/25/2008, -0/+19Ok so are allergic to 2.4Ghz or 5.8Ghz Wifi? The new 3G cell phones use 2.1Ghz and a cell tower puts out a lot more power then the 300 Milliwatts that a Wifi base station does.
What are they doing about the cell towers? - Brainmodder, on 05/25/2008, -1/+20Electrosensitivity is some of the largest bullcrap I have ever seen. It has been disproven!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6914492.stm
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070725/095038.s ... - Tyr7BE, on 05/25/2008, -0/+18I wish I could remember the source for this, but someone in the UK did an interview with a woman who was a member of a similar group, claiming she got horrible headaches from wireless signals. The interviewer set up a wifi router, and turned it on, but had the firmware set up so that the lights didn't light up. Later in the interview, when the interviewer turned on the router lights, the woman started moaning about how her head suddenly hurt. Sure enough, when the interviewer turned off the lights, she was just fine.
Just goes to show you how badly full of ***** some people are. - evodude, on 05/25/2008, -2/+20Not to mention the fact that it's obviously *****. Think about all the different types of signals that we get hit with every second of every day: radio waves, television, telephones, microwaves, the whole freaking spectrum of light, etc. There is always some sort of signal going through your body, and you've managed to isolate this "allergy" down to Wi-Fi and cellular signals? And the symptoms are pain in your chest that doesn't go away right away? Not your legs? Head? Arms? *****. These people have either convinced themselves that they have something that they really don't, or they're lying.
- plr4ever, on 05/25/2008, -1/+19If that works for you, i'm gonna try it at my job. But then i won't have an employer....
- ElBeh, on 05/25/2008, -4/+21OGC
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 05/25/2008, -1/+18Just the school? Did she get sick the in the presence of all wifi, even when she didn't know it was around? How do you know it wasn't something else in the school? Saying it was wifi when there are a million other factors is just plain stupid. I'm sorry, but I'm detecting the pungent odor of *****.
- Brainmodder, on 05/25/2008, -0/+17You forget about Faraday cages though. However your approach to idiot elimination is by far laudable. For bonus points one could hook up nothing at all to a directional wifi antenna to get funny results.
- dubloe7, on 05/25/2008, -2/+19because it would be the same as people being allergic to oxygen, because the entirety of the planet is literally bathed in radio waves.
- ajb2015, on 05/25/2008, -3/+20what does this have to do with socialism?
- solarsavior, on 05/25/2008, -0/+15I'm allergic to their stupidity. I demand that they be banned!
- feliks2, on 05/25/2008, -0/+15There are countries in the US?!?!?!
- bludo, on 05/25/2008, -0/+14The amish community welcomes you brother
- khyberkitsune, on 05/25/2008, -0/+14If they REALLY were allergic, you'd think that being on the planet alone would ***** them up, since the sun blasts us with EM across the entire spectrum 24 hours a day at powers far greater than our puny transmitters.
- str1fe, on 05/25/2008, -0/+13The witch! The witch!
- Haoie, on 05/25/2008, -3/+16Senseless litigation is the biggest thorn in the legal system in countries in the US.
- dagamer34, on 05/25/2008, -1/+14A tin-foil hat should fix your problems. It'll block the WiFi signals!!!!
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