Group Allergic to Wi-Fi Wants Signal Banned

Terry Olaes

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Do you have chest pain that doesn’t go away right away? Maybe you’re allergic to Wi-Fi signals, like this group claims in Santa Fe. Using the Americans with Disabilities Act to back them up, they want Wi-Fi banned from public buildings.

Arthur Firstenberg says he is highly sensitive to certain types of electric fields, including wireless Internet and cell phones. "I get chest pain and it doesn't go away right away," he said.
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ehhhhhh this sounds kinda weird to me... you can get chest pains from anxiety.. you can get anxiety from thinking that there is "something" out there that can make you sick or harm you in some way.. like those spooky wifi signals... i dont buy it
 
you know i've had allergies myself all my life and a hell of a lot of them - you name it i've probably got an allergy to it. but i mean shit wi-fi signals?? so they're allergic to electromagnetic signals?!?!? i find that very hard to believe thats even possible! hey i could be wrong, but it doesnt seem to make much sense.
 
I'm allergic to making less than 10,000 dollars a month. I demand compensation under the American with Disabilities Act.
 
interesting case, it's too bad that he doesn't have any symptoms that can actually be measured/seen other than claiming "chest pains"

I say stick this guy through a ringer of tests, start with an interview someplace that wouldn't ordinarily have wi-fi and simply have wi-fi there to see if it does anything.

Seems silly though, all those parents who claimed their kids got tumors (cancer clusters of kids) due to power lines didn't go the ADA on the power company.

I mean hell if I have a hangover due to me being a drunk, can I tell a store to turn their lights down because it's giving me a headache?
 
People like this give me a pain,and it's not in my chest! I'm allergic to cell phones,everyone talking in their cars throw the damn things out the window now,or I'll sue!:D
 
James Randi has $1,000,000 for anyone that can actually prove they can detect such a thing with their body alone.

Many delusional crackpots have tried, none have succeeded.
 
While installing a cellular cabinet on the roof of an apartment building, I was contacted by one of the residents. He were angry and upset because he was trying to have children, and he believed that the cellular cabinet was going to make him sterile. He threatened to sue for his lack of progeny if the cabinet wasn't removed.

I failed to see how preventing him from reproducing was a bad thing...should have cranked up the signal just in case. :p
 
Yet another group of idiots who needs to be diagnosed properly.

By which I mean, locked up in the nuthouse where they belong.
 
After 10 years of working graveyard I am light sensitive. This sunlight I am being exposed to on my new dayshift is hurting my eyes. I want compensated to. Funny thing is they keep telling me if I don't like it to get sunglasses or go back... sympathetic bastards! :D
 
We're bombarded with EM waves from all over the spectrum every day. A 100mw wi-fi signal will not give you stomach pains.
 
Obi_Kwiet said:
We're bombarded with EM waves from all over the spectrum every day. A 100mw wi-fi signal will not give you stomach pains.
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Mhm, we should block out the sun too! :D

I'm allergic to people talking to me, nausea and headaches are likely to occur when stupid questions or comments are said. Maybe I can make a case for people to stop talking.. to me at least. :)
 
I'm allergic to grass and pollen therefore I will be suing the next bastard that I catch mowing his yard or planting flowers. I also wish that piece of shit that created penicillin was still alive so I could sue his ass as I'm allerigic to it also.

Better yet, I'm thinking every single person in this group can go fuck themselves.
 
When he can pass double-blind tests in controlled circumstances with, say, 70% confidence, he can have his money. Until then he can go fuck himself.
 
He wants to ban Wi-Fi but he doesn't care about Cell phone towers or AM/FM towers?

This is a serious slap in the face to counties and companies that are putting forward a serious effort to spread free public Wi-Fi signals.

Also,
Dogbyte_13 said:
The human race just keeps on getting more and more stupid
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i'm allergic to these assholes who spend their whole lives thinking up new things to be 'allergic' to..........
 
I think this is when the tin foil suit i supposed to be worn along with the tin foil hat.
 
2.4ghz.....the approximate frequency of a microwave oven.

If they can nuke a burrito and not have chest pains, then they are just lunatics and should be dismissed as such.
 
I've heard of people being allergic to peanuts and nut related food stuffs, even heard of a kid allergic to water, but this...this sounds as real as rocking horse droppings.

I could understand it if they a. Had a pacemaker that for some reason was attuned to wireless frequencies, or b. There was medical proof that FCC approved bandwidth was somehow effecting people, like the lack of medical proof that wireless phone antenna's were somehow causing cancer?

Just a bunch of village idiots claiming bs illnesses, except America doesn't have any villages really...I'll just call them town/city idiots.
 
I remember in the eighties when I ran a office in London that there was a big scare about the "radiation" emmitted from CRTs (old style monitors). A Sales guy cold called my office and said his product blocked 100% of the the emmitted electromagnetic radiation from the screen. He seemed confused when I asked him how I was supposed to see what was on the screen !!!!

On a more serious note I have read much on this topic over the years. To date the only things I have come across is that the field produced by hi tension power lines ionises small particulate matter in the atmosphere and makes it more prone to sticking in your lungs. This is a problem for residents who live in both a dusty industrial area with hi tension lines near by.

Microwave energy can induce resonance in molecules with in the cell itself. Think of your microwave-although the power for wireless devices is supposed to be so low that this should not happen-However heating of the brain matter close to your ear while using a mobile phone for more than ten minutes has been measured (by about 1c i think) this could effect the rate of electochemical reactions within cells but by how much i cant tell you Perhaps a clued up PHD out their could enlighten.

At the end of the day we are very poor at risk analysis on a personal level-do you worry about your mobile phone/wireless network when you smoke, drink and drive jaywalk etc. I think worring about all this stuff is more damaging as it raises the stress hormones in your and they will kill you long term
 
well to be fair the long term effects of things like wifi are not able to be studied because well...we haven't reached the long term yet.

However that is the key...long term... could it be bad for us? maybe. Can it cause allergic reaction...no. IF the dude was complaining about headaches it would be more plausible...but this one just sounds like someone talking out of their ass
 
So what are they going to do about other 2.4GHz wireless devices and cell phones? If they don't ban those too, then they're not really going to "solve" anything (not that they would solve it this way anyway...).

The guy should seek medical help and diagnosis rather that try to deprive everyone in the town public WiFi access. And if he did seek help, then what did the doctors say?
 
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