Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off His Wi-Fi

Scyth3 writes "A man is suing his neighbor for not turning off his cell phone or wireless router. He claims it affects his 'electromagnetic allergies,' and has resorted to being homeless. So, why doesn't he check into a hotel? Because hotels typically have wireless internet for free. I wonder if a tinfoil hat would help his cause?"

Comments

Retard.

[XPeter]

You can't be "Allergic to wi-fi"

Put him in a room, and turn the wireless on and off. Guaranteed he won't be able to tell the difference.

Re:Retard.

[Rei]

That can't stop you from suing. Look at Jonathan Lee Riches. This is a guy who sued the Guinness Book of World Records for listing him as the man who's filed the most lawsuits in the history of mankind. ;) He's among others, he's sued Bill Belichick, George W. Bush, Martha Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Michael Vick, Steve Jobs, Perez Hilton, Somali pirates, Britney Spears, Benazir Bhutto, Pervez Musharraf, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, the 13 tribes of Israel, Plato, Nostradamus, Che Guevara, James Hoffa, "Various Buddhist Monks", the Lincoln Memorial, the Eiffel Tower, the USS Cole, the book Mein Kampf, the Garden of Eden, the Roman Empire, the Appalachian Trail, Plymouth Rock, the Holy Grail, the dwarf planet Pluto, and the entire Three Mile Island.

Re:Retard.

[Leebert]

Put him in a room, and turn the wireless on and off. Guaranteed he won't be able to tell the difference.

That's all well and good, and I'm sure the guy is full of it, BUT...

Many allergic reactions (like my own seasonal allergies) don't come and go like a light switch in the presence or absence of the allergen.

I could sit in a clean room for 2 or 3 days after getting really spun up from my tree allergies until the symptoms really begin to diminish.

Re:Retard.

[omfgnosis]

But he should really watch out for doubles.

Re:Retard.

[AmigaMMC]

What next? Is he going to ask radio stations to stop broadcasting? Or is he allergic only to frequencies used by Wi-Fi routers?

We live in a world that is constantly bombarded by radio waves, can't really hide anywhere.

Re:Retard.

[interkin3tic]

It's worth noting that the French, acting on behalf of the Eiffel tower, settled out of court for an undisclosed sum of money.

Re:Retard.

[Dishevel]

How is a story of the French surrendering worth noting? :)

Re:Retard.

[djdavetrouble]

It is suspected that this lawsuit was really a conspiracy just designed to get all named plantiffs one degree of separation away from Kevin Bacon (also named in the suit).

Re:Retard.

[2short]

"Many allergic reactions (like my own seasonal allergies) don't come and go like a light switch in the presence or absence of the allergen."

But all allergic reactions (including your seasonal allergies) occur when the body identifies proteins in the allergen as belonging to an attacking organism, and produces antibodies in response. To put it simply, if ridiculously, there are no proteins in wi-fi signals. So, even if wifi has any unusual effect on this guy, it isn't an allergy.

"I could sit in a clean room for 2 or 3 days after getting really spun up from my tree allergies until the symptoms really begin to diminish."

Of course. Antibodies remain in your blood well after exposure. But if you sat in a clean room until you had no symptoms, then inhaled a vial I gave you, and waited in the clean room to see what happened, you could tell me if the vial contained tree pollen or just something that smelled like it but wasn't. Can this guy do something similar with a box that might be a wifi router or not? I don't know, but a lot of other people have claimed sensitivity to wifi, and none of them have done it, so I'm guessing he can't either.

Re:Retard.

[loose electron]

he only resonates at certain frequencies....

Re:Retard.

[Lunix Nutcase]

Except he claims to have an allergy to wifi. If he shows no obvious allergy when he is unaware of the presence of wifi it would show to all how he is full of shit.

Re:Retard.

[MrNaz]

I call bull.
I'll put up $1,000 as a bet that you can't tell when xrays are passing through you in a true blind test. Find a hospital that will do the test, call me and I'll gladly put the money into an escrow. My email address is:
mr naz at hot mail dot com
If you're not BSing, then put your $1,000 where your mouth is.

Re:Retard.

[goodmanj]

I have an alergy to sunlight ... when I mentioned to a professional, apparently it's common but not normal and has been diagnosed as an alergy.

No you don't. Get a better professional, or at least spend thirty seconds Googling it.

It's a common genetic condition, probably related to some sort of signal crosstalk between the optic nerve and the nerve that causes sneezes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/527/why-do-some-people-sneeze-when-going-out-into-bright-light

Re:Retard.

[Chris Burke]

Many allergic reactions (like my own seasonal allergies) don't come and go like a light switch in the presence or absence of the allergen.

Right, because your immune system is actually being agitated by the actual allergic response to the actual allergens, and it takes time to come down, plus there are probably still actual allergens like pollen stuck in your sinuses and continuing to irritate you.

Speaking of light switches, all I can think of is the case of a cell phone company that put up a new tower, and all the advanced folks in the neighborhood by it complained that the tower was irritating their EM allergies and giving them headaches and whatnot.

The company's response to their complaints? "Gee, we can only imagine how bad it's going to get when we actually turn the tower on!"

The tower wasn't on. There was no EM radiation that could have provoked any hypothetical allergy response. It was all in their extremely advanced heads.

The ultimate kicker to this story would be if the neighbor had actually turned off their wi-fi weeks ago but told the guy they hadn't just to keep cheesing them off and to show how the "allergy" only exists as long as they think there's evil wi-fi. Unfortunately I'm sure that's not true, because the neighbor probably finds their wi-fi useful and why the hell would you stop using a useful and harmless tool because the nutjob next door thinks it's bad for them?

As far as the "weird unexplained things happen!" reasoning... Yeah, weird things do happen, but it's not like wi-fi itself is some unexplained phenomenon. We know what the power densities of it are at any given range, and unless you believe in homeopathic E-M radiation, there's no way it's having the effects people claim. High voltage power lines? Maybe there's something to that. Wi-fi? Yeah fucking right.

Re:Retard.

[MrNaz]

I have an alergy to sunlight, usually when emerging from a dark room into bright sunlight my eyes water, my nose goes ichy and I sneeze sometimes. It lasts a few minutes until my eyes adjust. I always thought this was a natural normal reaction and thought nothing of it, indeed it makes sense that your eyes water in bright light. But no, when I mentioned to a professional, apparently it's common but not normal and has been diagnosed as an alergy.

Bee Ess.
Sensitivity to sunlight is NOT an allergy. An allergy is a disorder of the immune system. A physiological response to physical stimulation is not an immune reaction, it's a physiological reaction.

If we redefined allergy to include that, then it would lose all meaning. E.g., Everyone would be allergic to being punched in the nose because it made your eyes water. It may even make you cry like a girl.

"Indeed there are people who can die from an alergic reaction to UV light.

It's called "melanoma". It, too, is not an alergic reaction.

Yet it's plausible that people are alergic to EMF, it's certainly established that people can be alergic to parts of the EM spectrum.

No. QED.

Re:Retard.

[interkin3tic]

Is there a term for when you make a joke on /., someone responds by making the joke more obvious, and then they get the funny mod instead of you? Maybe "whooshmodded?"

Anyway, two can play at that game:

?: "Knock knock?"

Frenchman: "Who is there? NEVERMIND WE SURRENDER BECAUSE WE'RE FRENCH AND EAT CHEESE!"

Re:Retard.

[nigelo]

he only resonates at certain frequencies....

No, it seems like a constant high-pitched whine to me...

Re:Retard.

[DJRumpy]

Considering back in 2006 they did no less than 31 studies (probably more but I'm too lazy to google for them) and found that overwhelmingly, people couldn't even tell when they were around a electromagnetic device like a cell phone:

"31 is a good number of studies, and 24 found that electromagnetic fields have no effect. But 7 did find some measurable effect, and because I have a reputation for pedantry to uphold: in 2 of those studies with positive findings, even the original authors have been unable to replicate the results; for the next 3, the results seem to be statistical artifacts (details below); and for the final 2, the positive results are mutually inconsistent (one shows improved mood with provocation, and the other shows worsened mood)."

There comes a point when both the doctors involved, and society at large need to consider that someone is more likely to simply be a hypochondriac, a head case, or misdiagnosed.

Re:Retard.

[BasilBrush]

Others have pointed out your reaction to light is not an allergy. But even if it was...

So how is it then that it is so implausible that someone might be alergic to wi-fi?

Because while science documents that the body has receptors sensitive to light - most obviously the eyes, but also the skin - there are no receptors sensitive to radio spectrum EMR.

Re:Retard.

[flatrock]

The existence of his allergies or lack thereof is irrelevant. The case should be dismissed because it is not his neighbor's resonsibility to go beyond FCC regulations in limiting radio emissions from his property. Turning off his cell phone will also do nothing about the cell towers in the area.

The guy with the allergies can take steps to block or at least seriously attenuate signals comming into his house. It may not be cheap, but since when is dealing with medical problems cheap.

He can also move to a rural area where such emissions are less in order to avoid them.

Re:Retard.

[pclminion]

My mother in law has a medical condition where exposure to bright sunlight breaks down proteins in her skin. One of the breakdown products generates an auto-immune response. In other words, she's "allergic" to bright sunlight. True, sunlight contains no proteins, but the interaction of sunlight with her skin CREATES proteins to which she is allergic.

I seriously doubt that WiFi radiation could do the same thing, but these processes can't be oversimplified like that.

Re:Retard.

[BikeHelmet]

You can't be "Allergic to wi-fi"

Put him in a room, and turn the wireless on and off. Guaranteed he won't be able to tell the difference.

Maybe that's not what it is.

My neighbour's phone was giving me a nasty headache. I thought it was food allergies, but one time I was in the backyard and his window was opened. I noticed the throbbing was pointing directly at that opening. I went over to his house and explained what was going on. He thought it was really strange, but let me in to look around. Once I figured out it was the phone(took all of 10 seconds to find it), I told him. He was happy to accept the new phone that I gave him later that day. No more headaches.

Best bet... some sort of frequency that I can *almost* hear, but nobody else can? The new phone was the exact same frequency, so I suspect his was somehow defective.

The guy suing could be a hypochondriac, or maybe there's more to it. I can hear CRT TVs - but that's pretty common. I can also hear circuit breakers, capacitors, power lines (I try not to get too close), LCD monitors, battery powered clocks, some watches, etc.; but none of that stuff causes me to have a headache. I have a Wireless G network with the signal strength ramped up - Tomato WRT54GL - but no headache.

I think my (superior?) hearing might be genetic. I have an Uncle nearing age 60, and he can still hear that annoying Mosquito ringtone that's supposed to be Teen-only.

What I don't get is, why would this guy sue? My first line of attack would be begging them to let me network their whole house, if it was real physical discomfort. If it wasn't physical - just something audible like being able to hear their TV - then who cares?

Re:Retard.

[cujo_1111]

After someone that has had more than 20 seperate CT scans, I can most surely tell when I am exposed to xrays.

While laying in the CT machine with the spinning going on, while there is no xrays being emitted everything feels fine, but as soon as the xrays start I feel a tingling sensation on the side of my body closest to the emitter and it rotates around my body with it. The sensation isn't on the surface either, it is more sub dermal (about a cm or so deep I think).

After talking to the radiologist about it, he said he was fairly rare but some people do feel xrays.

Re:Retard.

[cujo_1111]

Reminds me of a joke: Q: Why are French boulevards lined with trees? A: So invading forces can walk in the shade.

Re:Retard.

[ysth]

Um, no, he didn't. That was the original joke, just using subtlety instead of the ice pick to the forehead.

Re:Retard.

[kklein]

I can feel them, too. They aren't painful. In fact... Until today I didn't know that wasn't normal.

Now that I think of it, I don't think I feel them at the dentist. I wonder why...

I can also hear electronics when they break. It drives me crazy, because I'll hear a high-pitched squeal, at the very limit of my range of hearing, and I know that something is wrong. Also, there's a corner in Shimbashi (I live in Tokyo) that squeals, and I think it's the train track there. It's incredibly painful, but people are just walking around, not noticing anything. I was really happy when I found another person who heard the same thing at the same place.

So what I'm saying is that it is entirely possible for people to have differently-tuned physical sensations. There's nothing even slightly strange about pointing that out.

That is not to say that the guy in TFA isn't a nut. He clearly is. We're surrounded by radio waves all the time, and his next-door neighbor's WiFi is not really that strong. Does he have a cellphone? A wireless handset for his landline? A cordless keyboard? Come on.

Re:Retard.

[denton420]

X-rays are most certainly detectable by humans.

The energy they contain is orders of magnitude higher than what a wireless router would emit.

Depending on the length of exposure you could determine whether or not you are being exposed to x-rays

Wi Fi is on the order of a GHz which is 10^9 Hz.

An X-ray is defined as a pretty large range but it starts at about 10^18 Hz.

Being that EM radiation energy is directly proportional to frequency you can see that the chances of experiencing thermal heating due to x-rays is not entirely unlikely. Not to mention you did not specify the intensity of the x-ray source.

My buddy in the Navy said he and a couple of crew members were accidently caught infront of one of the large radars on the ship.

They began to vomit immediately after exposure and felt terrible for hours.

Thats the power of EM radiation at high intensities...

You can also view the IEEE standards for allowable transmittable power densities at given frequency ranges. You think they would regulate this stuff if there was no danger?

http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/Radio/table-power-field.gif

I mean yeah what the guy is claiming is bogus but do not go so far as to claim x-rays are harmless. X-rays account for many times the mSv incurred on a given human body than any nuclear explosion or accident at a power plant has ever caused.

Re:Retard.

[Anachragnome]

"If (Firstenberg) cannot obtain preliminary relief, he will be forced to continue to sleep in his car, enduring winter cold and discomfort, until this case can be heard."

Someone might want to point out to this moron (or better yet, the guy he is suing) that his car generates NUMEROUS magnetic fields.

Alternator, ignition coils, speed sensors, actuators, every inch of energized wiring...pretty much the entire car is enveloped in magnetic fields unless the battery is disconnected, and even then, all the magnets located in the many devices are still creating magnetic fields.

Re:Retard.

[Pikoro]

he said he's NOT french

Re:Retard.

[Nemyst]

So much for mod points...

I'd just like to point out that high-pitched noises, often caused by the flyback transformers found in things such as CRT monitors, are a far cry from detecting x-rays and radio waves. Why? Because one is just a sound and we have ears to feel that; that some people cannot hear the sound while others can is related to the auditive acuity of the person, nothing more. Case in point, you can make the test yourself. Just Google for "mosquito sound" and look for the different frequencies. You have a whole array of higher and higher noises which different people will react to differently. I can hear them and it's annoying, but there was a girl in my physics course who'd immediately sense it the second I turned it on no matter where she was in the classroom. This is perfectly valid because we have ears and ears are supposed to do that.

However, as far as I know, the skin isn't supposed to be an x-ray detector. The closest we have to that would be our own eyes, since x-rays are EM waves just like visible light. The skin's only way of triggering a response would be to react adversely to the energy being transmitted (IE alpha/beta/gamma rays, but not as dangerous). I don't really see how this would be possible for extremely short exposures (although I'm not saying it is impossible, I don't know). However, I'd just like to point out: from what I gathered, the GP saw the x-ray scanner. Have you ever felt a tingling sensation when feeling like something's close, even though there isn't anything? It's a bit like a presence, as if you were about to get touched by someone. I'd argue that you might very well be reacting in this way and not because of the actual x-rays. Until you've been bombarded by them randomly with no visual or auditive cues, it's impossible to say whether you're reacting to the x-rays themselves or just to the thought of the x-rays.

Re:Retard.

[qc_dk]

Ummm, because the french have actually been in a lot of wars (50 major european wars since 1500) and won 2/3 of all wars they've been in(since records began)?

Re:Retard.

[Opportunist]

The fun part is that in Europe all those jokes feature the Italians instead.

What's the perfect war?
German comman
British soldiers
US supplies
in Russian amounts
and Italian enemies.

What's the three thinnest books?
The book of delicious British food.
The US-american "how to behave abroad" book.
The book about Italian war heroes.

Why don't the Italians fight harder?
Because they know they'll switch sides half way and don't want to have to do the work twice.

Why do Italians build foxholes with sandbags on both sides? Because it's more work to move them every time they switch sides.

And so on. Granted, most of those jokes come from Germany, maybe they're still bitter that the Italians switched sides in BOTH major wars in last century...

Re:Retard.

[GungaDan]

I'm betting that if the neighbor merely stopped broadcasting his SSID, the "allergy" would cease.

Re:Retard.

[imakemusic]

It's because they're fat, stupid Americans.
 
...said the British guy with the bad teeth.

Seems oddly like...

[Darkness404]

This seems a lot like http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/07/27/1514209/English-DJ-Claims-Wi-Fi-Allergy which was proven to be a PR stunt in http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/07/31/1528241/Wi-Fi-Allergy-a-PR-Stunt

Don't live there

[DeadPixels]

Even if we were to assume that these "electromagnetic allergies" did exist, no one is forcing that man to live there. As an example, I'm allergic to dogs, but I'm not suing my neighbor for owning one. It's my choice to live where I do and it's not my prerogative to tell him that he can't own a dog.

Re:Don't live there

[Anonymous Coward]

Your neighbor's dog doesn't radiate through the walls though. :P

Re:Don't live there

[trentblase]

Bullshit. I know the dog radiates because of my allergy to thermal radiation.

litmus test

[MaXintosh]

I have a way to be fair to this guy, as well as punish people abusing torts. It's very simple:
a) If he can demonstrate his ability to detect electromagnetic fields under reasonable experimental conditions, they'll consider his case.
b) If he can't demonstrate his ability to detect electromagnetic fields under reasonable experimental conditions significantly more than chance, he owes the plaintiff the same amount he's seeking.

I call this the `put up or shut up` principle. Although, it might be more widely known as the `Let's not be flaming idiots` principle.

Re:litmus test

[LWATCDR]

Or let's actually be very fair.
Using WiFi is totally legal and within the other home owners rights. Even if he has this alergy it isn't up to his neighbor to do anything about it.
May his health insurance provider will offer to build him a Faraday cage. All he would need to do is cover his house with chicken wire, paint and stucco over it and connect it to ground.
That would protect him from not only WiFi but also radar from planes flying over head, TV and Radio broadcasts, and even Satellite transmissions.
Of course he would have to give up electricity all together to really have an EM free home but that is his problem.

Re:litmus test

[snowgirl]

I have a way to be fair to this guy, as well as punish people abusing torts. It's very simple:
a) If he can demonstrate his ability to detect electromagnetic fields under reasonable experimental conditions, they'll consider his case.
b) If he can't demonstrate his ability to detect electromagnetic fields under reasonable experimental conditions significantly more than chance, he owes the plaintiff the same amount he's seeking.

I call this the `put up or shut up` principle. Although, it might be more widely known as the `Let's not be flaming idiots` principle.

There's a few issues here. First, the man may just be suing for equity, as in suing to obtain an order of restraint requiring his neighbor to disable his EM emissions. As well, there are situations where a court considering some complex issue where an order of restraint may result in unfair damages against the other party to have the initiating party place a bond against such damages.

This guy faces an uphill battle, since he has to prove to a better than 50% confidence that his neighbor's EM emissions are causing him injury. That's the important thing, the law does not require him to prove 100%, or to a reasonable scientific certainty that his claims are valid. He has to prove to either a judge or a jury that it's more likely that his claims are true than his opponent.

Re:litmus test

[IndustrialComplex]

we are on slashdot for god's sake!

You know what? You are right. Lets give that the Slashdot treatment.

faraday cages do not block elecromagnetic waves.
Depends on the meaning of the word block.

antimatter cannot be transported in a suitcase. Of course it can, just not transported very far. And it has the side benefit of transporting everything around it immediately afterward.

homeopathy has no scientific evidence. Of course it has scientific evidence. The evidence suggests that Homeopathy is bunk, but there is plenty of evidence.

earth is not flat.
You just need to look at it on the right scale.

Re:litmus test

[91degrees]

He's not really abusing torts though. At least not deliberately. He does suffer from a genuine medical condition. The fact that it's psychological rather than physical doesn't make it any less of a problem.

Re:litmus test

[SCPRedMage]

The fact that it's psychological rather than physical doesn't make it any less of a problem.

But it DOES make it a problem that was neither caused by, nor can be relieved by, his neighbor's actions. Which makes it his own damn problem.

Get off my Astral Plane!

[kclittle]

And stop eating meat OR veggies -- I can hear the carrots scream!

Simple test...

[Loki_1929]

I think this guy's full of it, but there's a pretty simple test. Blindfold him and drive him out to a nice, open, quiet country setting. Something with lots of fresh air, birds chirping, no cars, no people, etc. Somewhere where you can smell flowers from a mile away and it feels like you're on a country road in the middle of nowhere. Park under high tension lines. Then ask him how he feels. If he's not on the ground doubled over in pain, he's a POS and full of it.

And if this guy really does have that severe a reaction to all technology, then Darwin says he should go stuff. Let him join an Amish community and live the rest of his life in peace. He has no right to shut down every invention of the past hundred years everywhere he goes simply because he's a genetic disaster.

I want to sue as well...

[mldi]

Is he crazy? I wanna sue my neighbour for not turning his WiFi back on!

Re:Microwave Ovens? Cordless Phones?

[MightyMartian]

He clearly needs to sue the Sun for giving such a constant stream of high energy particles. Then, of course, there's the galaxy, with those awful cosmic rays. Hell, there's the blackbody radiation.

I hope this guys has a lawyer with a pretty clear schedule.

On a more serious note, this guy needs to be sued into bankruptcy.

phobia

[wizardforce]

If the neighbor's house was emitting dangerous levels of gamma radiation then the suit would definately have merit but this is a severe phobia not a physiological reaction to wifi "radiation." There is zero evidence what so ever that anyone has any adverse reaction to wifi and even if there was. it would not be an "allergy."

Don't sue, get $1M instead...

[nweaver]

As has been mentioned by others, WiFi sensitivity should easily count for paranormal under the James Randi Educational Foundation's $1M paranormal prize. http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

Re:Don't sue, get $1M instead...

[Qzukk]

WiFi sensitivity should easily count for paranormal

I suspect that Randi would call it "abnormal" rather than "paranormal", after all, WiFi scientifically exists, and there are various mechanisms for detecting electromagnetic fields throughout nature.

Re:Don't sue, get $1M instead...

[RapmasterT]

WiFi does exist, but that's not the paranormal claim, being allergic to it (no less just being able to SENSE it) most definitely IS a paranormal claim. The JREF makes no requirement that the person taking the challenge believe the claim is paranormal, they handle that part for them. In fact the most common claim they receive is plain old water dowsing. Water can be "detected" through many different processes, a forked stick just isn't one of them.

Two Words

[Locke2005]

Faraday Cage

Intel has equipped entire floors at Jones Farm with these (even coatings on the Windows). Yes, it makes cell phones unusable on those floors.

Re:Should we punish people for suing?

[MaXintosh]

The plaintiff is a serial litigant. He's sued just about everyone and his uncle before. While I agree, there needs to be protection for those with less extreme claims, there also needs to be more teeth to punishing those who abuse the system. A nice place to start is to punish those with outlandish or vindictive claims.

Maybe this is a dumb question, but...

[lemur666]

...how exactly did he know his neighbor had a wireless router running, unless he used some sort of wireless device (all of which produce their own EM emissions) to specifically detect the EM emissions coming from his neighbor? And no, divining rods don't count, regardless of what Iraqi bomb squads are doing.

It'll be interesting to see if this goes on long.

[jafo]

Last I knew, the FCC was pretty clear that they were the only ones that had the power to regulate RF emissions. I wonder how easy it would be to get the FCC to tell the plaintiff to retract his case or face FCC fines.

I mean, hey, my neighbor was just fined tens of thousands of dollars by the FAA for launching a homemade balloon. They're serving jail time now. I don't want to mess with organizations matching the F[A-Z]{2} regex. :-)

Sean

Re:He will have a hard time proving his case

[tsm_sf]

Ferrets are widely known to promote blood circulation, asshole. One of the landmark studies compared the orgonocephalic health of a man with a ferret strapped to his head against that of a control subject*, with many interesting results.

* tube sock full of mice

Oblig. XKCD

[ChipMonk]

Issue 654

Allens

[FrigBot]

One time, um, I read this trilogy of books by Timothy Zahn called Conqueror's Pride, and the aliens in it were susceptible to radio waves. So they thought the humans were attacking them, but really we were just communicating with radio waves, but it was hurting them so a war started. It was mostly a good trilogy. Mostly.

Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning On His Wife!!!

[master_p]

That's what you get when you read /. at 2 am and you are falling asleep on the keyboard...

The PM says it's the WiFi

[theNAM666]

In other news, the Prime Minister released a press release today, explaining that recent government scandals were the result of "problems with the WiFi" which caused "mass delusions among Parliamentarians" which "made them do it." Mr. Brown promises that henceforth that the Parliamentary floor, retreats and other events will be WiFi-free in order to combat corruption. No word on Browning Street.

Re:Microwave Ovens? Cordless Phones?

[Loadmaster]

He's only homeless in that he moved out of his house into his car to get away from the EMF.

That's unbelievable.

Everybody loves EMF

Easy Fix

[Erasmus]

100% of all Wi-Fi allergies can be cured with one change to your router settings: disable SSID broadcast.

James Cameron announces a new movie.

[crovira]

It will star a Navvi' lawyer who gains fame suing the entire planet earth for deforestation of his planet and other environmental disasters caused by by 'drive by' visits by earthlings.

Budget for this mix of "Philadelhia" meet "Avatar" is estimated at over 330,000,000 and will use up the worlds' entire supply of "green screen" drop cloths, as soon as he learns how Cristo wrapped the Reichstag.

There is nowhere he can go

[Weaselmancer]

There isn't. No place for him to go where he could find relief, unless he builds himself a Faraday cage to live in. Doesn't matter what his neighbor does or not.

Cosmic microwave background radiation is broadcasting at 2.4Ghz. There is literally no place outside of a Faraday cage in this entire universe he could be happy.

Also, this is a good article.