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Opposition to mobile phone masts, health and safety fears

NIMBY's who oppose mobile phone masts

Opposition to masts

If you use and carry a mobile phone round with you, then you should really understand that the communication tower needs to be sited somewhere. Before you protest about one of these being built. THINK!



Why is the world full of these NIMBY's who oppose the building of mobile phone masts, yet they are quite happy to carry around and use a mobile phone themselves? These people are just a load of hypocrites.

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25-2-2008Kids use mobile phones to tease others and just to show off. Thats all. They use them to say "look I have a better phone and you don't"kaz
19-2-2008No way. Not In My Back Yard. For chrissake we all managed quite well without mobile phones 20 years ago. Do we really need them today? What honestly do the kids use mobile phones for? Ganging up for a booze? Girl-hunting?Nimby Pimby
19-2-2008I think that mobile phone mast should be diguised so we don't have to see them but these NIMBY's just want something to complain at. If the masts where not there they would complain that they didn't get any signal at all.kaz
25-5-2007There should be gangs of SS-style death squads that should operate undercover of darkness, removing NIMBYs from their houses in the dead of night, and torching their cars. It's because of these pockets of society, that get upset about something, and whinge and whine to the council or whoever, th...moreMad
06-4-2006I work for the mobile phone industry... when we try to disquise the masts & antennas we get accused of "trying to hide something".. I promise you we just can't win...Rob S
30-3-2006@steve - NIMBY's tend to care about their area, but don't give two hoots about someone else's, from what I've experienced.Non-NIMBY
16-3-2006The telecoms industry needs to do more to hide these monstrosities. As far as NIMBYs go, maybe they are just people who ACTUALLY care about what happens in their area. After all, they do have to live there.Steve P



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