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NYT on Cell Phone Tower Controversy
prostoalex writes "The New York Times discusses the controversy of placing cell phone towers on top of hills, a practice to which many people object. According to the article, people frequently complain about the visual impediment and are afraid that property values will decline or some health damage will be done with radio waves. At the same time, people get quite irritated when proper phone service is not provided by the operators, and the calls keep dropping or coverage is poor outside of densely populated areas. Phone companies also lease the land to place the cell phone tower for $30,000-$50,000, which is attractive to many landowners, but some, like Sammy Barsa from NYT article, find themselves persona non grata in the community."
Fro $50k / hill / month, I'll be happy to play the role of persona non grata.
For $50k a month, I'd be happy to host a cell tower on my head.
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"but some, like Sammy Barsa from NYT article, find themselves persona non grata in the community."
That's easy to fix. If anybody complains, threaten to turn up the power!
"Derp de derp."
There are no trees in NY.
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Remember that sentiment when your upwind neighbor wants to build a pig farm or a junkyard.
(not equating a pig farm with an innocuous cell phone tower, but blanket statements about land use are silly)
Just make them hill-shaped and you won't be able to see it. :)
or some health damage will be done with radio waves.
The one time wearing a tin foil hat would be optimal...
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I hope for karmic retribution for these people.
I'd mod them down for you, but most of them don't use Slashdot.
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But...but...doesn't a tree grow in Brooklyn?
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There are places in the Grand Rapids area where long roads end in quick, 90-degree turns, with a house on the corner. Most of these places have large rocks between the road and their house, in case someone falls asleep at the wheel.
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Heck, the non-camoflauged towers make the NJ landscape look BETTER.
They could make it look like an endagered kind of tree, and put a fake green party member up there defending it.
What keeps me going is my inertia.
Funny thing about the area in which I reside.
:)
We have the powerlines/other lines hung EVERYWHERE (and when the ice in the winter takes them out -- THEY PUT THEM BACK UP). We have water towers EVERYWHERE. And almost every tower has *something* attatched to it that isn't water related.
Of course, I haven't heard about anyone around here not wanting the huge towers (Alltel threw one up across the street from Wal*Mart at the junction of highway 6 and 63).
People are just funny...
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I've lived under a cell phone tower my whole life and I've never had any health probbbb3839q9328!#!)NO CARRIER
I've been asking for a windfarm in my back yard since I was 5.
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I didn't even mind the sheep jumping the fence and coming into my yard
Did you count them at night?
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