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Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick
OrangeMonkey11 writes "A Santa Fe man who claims to suffer from 'electromagnetic sensitivities' has sued his neighbor after she refused to stop using wireless devices. 59-year-old Arthur Firstenberg claims his sensitivity can be set off by cellphones, routers and other electronic devices. From the article: 'Firstenberg, 59, wanted Raphaela Monribot to limit her use of the devices. "I asked her to work with me," he said. "Basically, she refused." So he sued Monribot in state district court, seeking $530,000 in damages and an injunction to force her to turn off the electronics. "Being the target of this lawsuit has affected me very adversely," Monribot said Friday in response to e-mailed questions. "I feel as if my life and liberty are under attack for no valid reason, and it has forced me to have to defend my very basic human rights."'"
He's lucky he doesn't live in a universe where "electromagnetism" is everywhere, all the time. Oh, wait...
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Blasphemy! I'm going to sue you for that statement, you insensitive clod!
I'm going to sue you for insulting all of us insensitive clods, you insensitive clod!
>>>Ok people, do you have any CLUE how many radio waves are going through your body at any given time?
I'm being irradiated right now.
By my CRT.
Tuned to playboy.
It tingles.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Even if it makes it to court the guy won't. I'll be there with a grid of routers, cell phones and all type of other EM emitting radiation devices.
Follow me here: The average household is somewhere around 2400 square feet. Let's assume for simplicity sake that it's a box measuring 49'x49'x10'. That makes for about 6800 square feet of interior surface area. The skin depth for gold at 2.4 GHz is pretty close to 200nm, but to be sure that the vast majority of the signal is stopped lets assume a coating of 1um thickness. 6800 square feet multiplied by 1um yields a volume of about 6e-4 m^3 of gold. Multiplying this by the density of gold (~20gm/cm^3) yields about 12 kilograms of gold. The last time I checked, gold was something close to $1200 dollars an ounce, which works out to be about $508k. So all the guy really wants to do is use the settlement money to WiFi proof his house. And have a gold plated interior. And a little bit left over for hookers and blow.
And what's with this discrimination against sensitive clods? I'll be seeing you all in court.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
No they don't. Most people are horribly undereducated about the world around them. I blame High Fructose Corn syrup consumption.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Yes, but, which eye do you poke out first?
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Just kidding, I'm sure no one would be stupid enough to claim that a certain frequency of light caused them physical problems, unless of course it really did...
Great. Just when I was about to paint my house ultraviolet you came along and ruined it. Thanks.
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I had a neighbor worried that my HAM antenna was going to potentially give her cancer, and headaches. I simply explained that my antenna was designed not to give off radiation but to collect it from the front and then refract it backwards. She was happy with that and her headaches from the radiation that she was getting have gone away since my antenna is collecting so much of it!
Anybody who claims to be sensitive to this sort of thing and who has not won the million bucks is basically a flat-out liar.
Funny story. Once on /. someone was trying to claim that James Randi was rejecting legitimate claims of Super Powers. They of course failed miserably, but in the course of trying they linked to a randi.org forum post that simply made my day. It was the most awesome post I'd ever seen, at least on this topic.
It was a post by a man who had previously submitted an application to be tested (I think it was for EM sensitivity, but it might have been dousing or something), but -- and here's the awesome part -- he was retracting his application because he'd decided to actually conduct experiments with at least a single-blind format, and concluded based on his experiment that he didn't really have super powers.
Holy fuck. Every so often something happens that gives me a little hope for the human species.
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Damn Tom, They moved Santa Fe from New Mexico to California?
Cool... that probably raised the IQ in both places.
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Erm....
If their eyes are "lighting up" then I think they have a perfectly valid reason to sue ;)
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Assuming high noon on the equator, it's a regular window mounted vertically in the wall. The trick is you need a pool mounted at 45 degrees.
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