Man Sues Neighbor Claiming Wi-Fi Made Him Sick 574
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."'"
Lucky for him (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In this litigious society... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In this litigious society... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm going to sue you for insulting all of us insensitive clods, you insensitive clod!
Re:The waves are everywhere! (Score:4, Funny)
>>>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.
Re:At least... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
I think I have a solution (Score:5, Funny)
Send that guy over here (Score:3, Funny)
I have a few powerful crystals that absorb electrosmog here for sale. I also sell Bach-flower tinctures that strengthen you against the onslaught of those waves.
And if you buy that, I also have a beautiful bridge with a top notch view on SF for sale...
Re:the more attention you give morons... (Score:3, Funny)
the more they'll act like morons.
I wish reporters wouldn't give this type of crap the time of day.
Not to defend Arthur The Human Antenna Firstenberg, but perhaps he is suffering from some sort of mental condition and genuinely believes what he is claiming? It doesn't make him right, and may only prove he's watched "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" [wikipedia.org] too many times, but he might only be a mental case and not an asshat.
Never attribute to asshattery that which can be adequately explained by shit house rat crazy.
Re:If there is an island for these people... (Score:2, Funny)
If i can believe my TV, really strange things seems to happen all the time on islands...
Re:In this litigious society... (Score:5, Funny)
courthouse (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Picture in the summary has it right (Score:3, Funny)
At 3am I can't hear nothing, my music is way too loud.
Re:The waves are everywhere! (Score:5, Funny)
No they don't. Most people are horribly undereducated about the world around them. I blame High Fructose Corn syrup consumption.
Re:the more attention you give morons... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:the more attention you give morons... (Score:5, Funny)
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... [thefreedictionary.com]
Great. Just when I was about to paint my house ultraviolet you came along and ruined it. Thanks.
Re:the more attention you give morons... (Score:3, Funny)
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!
Re:In this litigious society... (Score:3, Funny)
He wasn't specific to who won. Someone always wins, and someone always loses. It never ends with "they hugged, made up, and went home." :)
Well it does occasionally end like that. Especially when it's a mother suing her daughter on Judge Judy.
Re:the more attention you give morons... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:the more attention you give morons... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:the more attention you give morons... (Score:5, Funny)
Damn Tom, They moved Santa Fe from New Mexico to California?
Cool... that probably raised the IQ in both places.
Re:Homeowner? His responsibility (Score:3, Funny)
I can honestly say this is the first time I've ever observed walnut-car anger.
Re:the more attention you give morons... (Score:5, Funny)
Erm....
If their eyes are "lighting up" then I think they have a perfectly valid reason to sue ;)
Re:Picture in the summary has it right (Score:5, Funny)
Re:the more attention you give morons... (Score:3, Funny)
But now my head hurts, for some odd reason...