Oh. Shut. Up. Sussex County Whiners, I’m Calling You Out
Quel dommage, petites pauvres Sussex County condo residents.
From today’s News-Journal, a bunch of self-entitled crybabies from Sea Pines Condominiums, and other overdeveloped areas of coastal Sussex, are whining that their aesthetic quality of life will simply be destroyed if/when a 100-foot communications tower is built near their property. Let’s illustrate just how dire their situation is:
From ‘Sea Pine Village homeowners’ president’ Gary Bogossian:
“If you were sitting in the pool, you’d be staring right at this tower, and I don’t mean just the little top of this,” he said. “A lot of [renters] are just going to say forget it, I’m going to go rent someplace else.”
Tell ‘em to turn their gold-plated inner tubes in the other direction. Or to close their eyes.
This is for every single self-entitled individual who thinks that towers should be located ’somewhere else’: When all of you give up your cellphones and your other cellular toys, THEN come back and cry about cellphone towers. Why should ’someone else’ have to deal with them, but not you? Because of ‘real estate values’? Because ‘renters’ might rent someplace else? Then, lower your bleeping rents! A lot of that property that you’re sitting on should never have been developed in the first place. All of you living there have benefitted from sneaky stuff that the Sussex County Council snuck through. And, overbuilding the areas in which you now reside HAS destroyed the aesthetic quality of life of coastal Sussex. Now you’re crying crocodile tears b/c a sign was allegedly in the wrong place and Sussex County government screwed you?
Memo to Sussex County Crybabies: You’re no better nor more deserving than anybody else. Suck it up.
Comment by Another Mike on 3 November 2009 at 9:37 am:
First time they try to call a restaurant for dinner reservations and can’t get any cell service, they’d be bitching about that. Or if they find dead spots for 911, they’d have a fit.
And why the hell would you sit in traffic to get to the beach, then go sit in a pool?
Comment by nemski on 3 November 2009 at 9:44 am:
El Somnambulo is Mr. Cranky Pants today.
Nice post.
Comment by cassandra_m on 3 November 2009 at 9:50 am:
This is funny — it is AT&T whose spike in business because it has the iPhone has had people complaining about slowness in the system. So AT&T is working at fixing holes in its cell coverage meaning that no only will these people get their dinner reservations in, but they’ll be able to follow their Twitter feeds all day long.
Unsightly phone towers are a problem everywhere, but how do you get and keep cell service (and especially all of the data services) without them?
Comment by nemski on 3 November 2009 at 10:04 am:
Funny, cell towers are not something that you can cry, “Not in my backyard” and still have your cell phone work.
Comment by nemski on 3 November 2009 at 10:07 am:
Sea Pine residents don’t want a cell tower, well there’s an app for that.
Comment by meatball on 3 November 2009 at 10:08 am:
They could do this
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/cell-phone-tower-disguised-as-a-tree/view/?service=1
Comment by meatball on 3 November 2009 at 10:11 am:
I’m surprised there hasn’t been any outcry over the UofD proposed 400 foot windmill slated to tower over Lewes.
Comment by cassandra_m on 3 November 2009 at 10:12 am:
I’ve seen one of these cell phones disguised as trees on 95 someplace around Chester. It looks like a cell phone tower with some strap on tree branches. Not really a better look, IMO.
nemski’s app for the NIMBYs is funny!
Comment by El Somnambulo on 3 November 2009 at 10:18 am:
Allow King Cranky Pants to come up with the perfect solution. Decorate the tower just like the totem pole that served as Bethany’s signature structure for years.
As to the U of D windmill, Lewes needs a Dutch Pantry eatery, so…
You’re welcome.
Comment by MJ on 3 November 2009 at 10:58 am:
And these condos aren’t all that special – built in 1984, most sell in the low $400K. They are overpriced, and, if you bought one, you’d get stuck with Gerald Hocker as your state rep.
Comment by Brooke on 3 November 2009 at 11:11 am:
Well, to be fair, a majority of Delawareans now live on land that shouldn’t have been developed, but developers have been running the show here for at least 40 years. We should have let Candid Camera leave the gates up.
Comment by John Manifold on 3 November 2009 at 11:15 am:
Brooke: best line here in many months.
Why not put the cell phone tower atop the condo building?
Comment by Geezer on 3 November 2009 at 11:15 am:
Cass: The esthetic problem with that tower is that it’s made to look like a redwood tree (out of place in the East) and stands hundreds of feet away from any other (oops, I mean real) trees. In a wooded area it would still stand out, but maybe a little less.
Comment by Lee Ann on 3 November 2009 at 1:42 pm:
Reminds me of an article in the News Journal last year when someone who moved to Sussex from Detroit was complaining that his cell phone coverage was spotty in parts of the county. You move to a county that is rural, with de minimis taxes and de minimis government services and expect all the urban perks (of Detroit, no less) that you willingly left behind? And you don’t want anyone else to follow you there, either.
The hypocrisy of it all!
Comment by anone on 3 November 2009 at 9:06 pm:
Speaking of land that should NEVER have been developed 200 feet from the Atlantic ocean. Has anyone seen Bethany Beach lately? A $25 million beach replenishment project washed away in 13 months. Wait until you hear the WHINING about flooding, no renters, small crowds in the summer and how WE the TAXPAYERS, should pay for their entitlement, a new beach. Again and again and again.
Comment by Brian Shields on 3 November 2009 at 9:50 pm:
I agree El Som. STFU and mind your own business. Cell coverage blows in that area and it is because these prissy little bastards are all cantankerous about modern technology befuddling their existence. Maybe when Depends come with a cell phone pocket we’ll start having better coverage around here.