More intentional damage to towers

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#322787 22-Sep-2025 17:22

Looks like the cookers are out cooking again!

Pretty sure the collective IQ from the local Facebook comments could barely be room temperature numbers. 🤦‍♂️

https://wanakaapp.nz/NewsStory/wilful-damage-to-albert-town-cell-phone-tower-provider/68cf61a328344f002ea9ea41#top

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#3417472 22-Sep-2025 17:40

Suspicious? Those boxes are at the top of a tall tower and you need a cherry picker to get to them. How would have an arsonist achieved this?

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#3417476 22-Sep-2025 17:52

The absolute brain dead idiot/s that did this would be the first ones to start moaning online they missed a phone call or a SMS was delayed or mobile data is having issues🙄 😒

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#3417477 22-Sep-2025 17:53

johno1234:

Suspicious? Those boxes are at the top of a tall tower and you need a cherry picker to get to them. How would have an arsonist achieved this?

Tells us more about the boxes at the top of the tower that the article described as being “a short distance away”?

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#3417484 22-Sep-2025 17:57

I think they are the mast head amps and bts / node b is at the base of the mast

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#3417491 22-Sep-2025 18:22

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Sv5vZeKsq/?mibextid=WC7FNe

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16ybFwBMkG/?mibextid=KsPBc6

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#3417510 22-Sep-2025 19:04

MadEngineer:

johno1234:

Suspicious? Those boxes are at the top of a tall tower and you need a cherry picker to get to them. How would have an arsonist achieved this?

Tells us more about the boxes at the top of the tower that the article described as being “a short distance away”?

I’m referring to the ones in the photo. At the top of the tower.

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#3417531 22-Sep-2025 20:38

This is eventually going to get someone killed... not because of the tower, but because some idiot who refuses to understand science, sets one of these on fire and someone else who is in an emergency, can't connect to a tower and call 111.

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#3417567 22-Sep-2025 23:46

In my opinion, Clay Drummond, from the Facebook link above was the one who spread misinformation on these particular cell sites that were destroyed by doing his highly scientific EMF readings and posting how dangerous these towers are should be held accountable here for the destruction of said cell sites.

From his own Facebook post:

About a year ago, when I was passing through Wanaka/Queenstown, I filmed two cell towers in Wanaka and recorded their EMF readings. Last night, those exact towers were either torched or malfunctioned and completely destroyed. Police are on scene investigating, but the media is silent.

I don’t condone arson or violence.

And yet, he's in a roundabout way he is encouraging the cookers to essentially do the bidding for him.

As @MaxineN said this is a dangerous act as it could mean somebody won't be able to call 111. These are not "weapons" but essential infrastructure many of us are reliant on.

In one video he did an interview with "an expert in EMF" but it was clear the guy was anything but - a year later, this video is still up on YouTube.

These people are ignoring basic science and by running a page spreading misinformation they're a part of the problem. Really wish Facebook (and other platforms) were proactive with taking these pages along with blatant misinformation down.

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#3417569 23-Sep-2025 00:45

I had a lady (who no longer speaks to me) on a local whatsapp group sending videos showing the "dangerous" levels of EMF coming off computers and phones etc.

She got very upset when I asked her to go and take a reading in full sun and share it on the group.

Needless to say she was trying to peddle some sort of snake oil.

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#3417638 23-Sep-2025 07:36

I made the mistake of reading some of the Facebook comments.

I do wish the telcos could just switch off the other towers in the area for five days or something and say "oh they've all been broken, we are working as fast as we can to repair the issue"

It would be chaos.

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#3417643 23-Sep-2025 08:06

Scanning through the thread, it’s hard to decipher whether these towers are causing cancer through their ‘high EMF’ emissions or whether they’re their to ‘mind control’ people. Either way, our education system failed these people terribly.

hope the clown(s) are found and have the book thrown at them.

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#3417644 23-Sep-2025 08:10

Aucklandjafa:

Scanning through the thread, it’s hard to decipher whether these towers are causing cancer through their ‘high EMF’ emissions or whether they’re their to ‘mind control’ people. Either way, our education system failed these people terribly.

hope the clown(s) are found and have the book thrown at them.

I'm pretty sure the 5G signal is used to activate the microchips that Bill Gates put into the COVID vax.

Or so I've been told.

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#3417645 23-Sep-2025 08:11

I was walking past a tower today, and was wondering how they managed to actually set the radios on fire? Seems like it would be quite difficult.

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#3417646 23-Sep-2025 08:13

Ge0rge:

I was walking past a tower today, and was wondering how they managed to actually set the radios on fire? Seems like it would be quite difficult.

Occam's Razor suggests the tower top fires were started by electrical faults or weather damage. I can't see these anti 5G moonbats climbing up those towers.

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#3417647 23-Sep-2025 08:19

I was thinking the same. Throwing fire in some form or other would be just an effort in futility, and climbing up it to set it on fire would be just asking to get burnt.

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