Sprint wins another round in battle with nimby's in Malibu, CA

"We live in this wireless world, but my goodness, we're putting all this garbage on telephone poles," he said. Kearsley said if a pole were to collapse, it could create a great environmental risk."

That is the most absurd thing I have ever herd!

 

Impeach Mayor Ken Kearsley!!!

 

and like you said Larry, these towers are made to blend in to it's enviroment sometimes even making it look better than it did before, you think these "Nimby's" would have something better to put their energy into like cleaning up our ocean's water.

 

You know, if a power pole (yes, there are still some of those) falls over, it could be bad too, so we'd better not allow Southern California Edison to provide better service to our town! If the telephone poles fall over, that would be terrible, it would create an environmental impact, we'd better get Verizon to withdraw the poles!

Once, at a City Council meeting in Santa Monica (you have to have attended one of these to fully understand the complete farking idiocy of the vocal residents of the People's Republic of Santa Monica) someone irritably asked, "We make Southern California Edison bury their equipment, we make GTE (now Verizon) bury their equipment, what's so special about these cell phone companies that they can't bury their equipment too?!"

I boggled. I mean, talk about no concept of the underlying technology.

The article was in the Malibu Times which, like the Santa Monica Mirror, tends toward the heartstring-tugging, empathetic, bleeding-heart style of reporting... so I'm not surprised by the tone of the article. And if you've ever been to Malibu, you know that the residents are well-heeled (median home price is above $800,000), bored (there is bloody nothing to DO there), and has apparently caught Severe Acute NIMBY Syndrome from their compadres up in Topanga, the ex-hippie minivan yuppies. They have the money, the time, and the cause.

The best was when a tower was opposed by the neighbourhood association of the district in which I used to live. They suggested that the tower could be placed somewhere where it would technically be in North Hollywood. Hello? Why are you better than people who live in North Hollywood? Just because you have more money? If the tower is too ugly for Sherman Oaks it is too ugly for Valley Glen and too ugly for Van Nuys and too ugly for Studio City and too ugly for Encino and just plain too ugly.

Yet these are the same people who sigh frustratedly and say, "I hate $CARRIER... my phone never works at home!"

One of these days they're going to be beaten into sense with a large cluebat wielded by Rocco and Vito Spumoni, the Cause-and-Effect Twins.

@$#%.

 

I am so glad that in NYC NIMBYis is just starting to kinda itch. Correct me if i am wrong but in NYC we have had something like over 300 new sites go up this year.

 

Maybe the Nimby's work for Verizon

BS

 

lol