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US family defiant in tinfoil house

[q]This one is causing some merriment on Slashdot at the moment: a Sacramento family has been ordered to remove aluminium cladding from their house which, they claim, is protecting them from radio wave attack by neighbours.

According to local news outfit KCRA, the D'Souzas say the assaults began on the first anniversary of 11 September, and have subsequently caused "health problems ranging from headaches to lupus". Accordingly, they clad the exterior of the house with sheet aluminium which, as Sarah D'Souza expained, is "a shield to protect against radiation, because microwave radiation is reflected off of aluminium, so it's a protective measure."

The neighbours and the authorities are less than impressed. The D'Souzas have been ordered to remove the cladding or face the consequences. Sacramento Code Enforcement spokesman, Josh Pino, admitted: "Eleven years in Sacramento and few other years in Southern California and this is the first time I've ever seen [anything like this]. The inside of the house is also covered with foil and the beds are covered with a foil-like material as well."

The D'Souzas have said they will provide evidence of "what they believe is a problem with radiation". Quite right too. We here at Vulture Central - wary of possible attack by war-driving hackers, bluejackers and Lizard Army mind-control rays - sit inside an enormous Faraday cage which blocks 100 per of electromagnetic radiation. Furthermore, our security correspondent John Leyden is, as we speak, wrapped in an enormous hi-tech tinfoil quilt after complaining of the initial symptoms of lupus. Crikey. ®[/q]

[vyper]

Why exactly must they remove it anyway?

[IceFire]

Originally posted by vyper
Why exactly must they remove it anyway?

Probably blinding drivers as they go past?

Of course, forcing them to remove it makes their paranoia and case stronger.

[Liberator]

Why don't they just make them paint it, it would still block the "radio wave attack".

[Rictor]

I think you guys are missing the real problem here - the highly agressive and harmful radio-wave attacks by their neighbors. Someone ought to hold them to account for the headached and lupus they've caused..

[Sesquipedalian]

*Takes off tinfoil hat*

[Swamp_Thing]

wary of possible attack by war-driving hackers, bluejackers and Lizard Army mind-control rays

 

[Taristin]

Why is it always a lizard army? *makes the shadow the hedgehog face from VGcats*

[karajorma]

Ummm. Why haven't they just considered tin foil plating the inside of their house?

[kode]

Originally posted by karajorma
Ummm. Why haven't they just considered tin foil plating the inside of their house?

they have that too, but you know... better safe than sorry.

me, I live in a tin shack.

[Taristin]

Yeah, but I hear that's to protect you from the bears that rome the streets.

[FireCrack]

I think they shoud be 'upgraded' to a special steel-barred farraday cage.

[Liberator]

nah...they need to use steel wool to build their padded cell out of...

[kode]

Originally posted by Raa
Yeah, but I hear that's to protect you from the bears that rome the streets.

streets? what are those?

[Nuke]

Originally posted by Raa
Yeah, but I hear that's to protect you from the bears that rome the streets.

you can deal with bears in the same manor you deal with carl, give them your lunch and walk away slowly.