I've had worse
I worked as a broadcast tower technician in college. At least he got a ride to the top. I always had to climb.
FM is easy - the tower is just there to get the antenna up off the ground. AM towers are fully energized and small "buzzy" differences in potential between sections are not uncommon. Plus you have to mount them by leaping from a wooden ladder to avoid becoming an unwilling conductor.
We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard.
H.L. Mencken, 1914
I've had worse
I worked as a broadcast tower technician in college. At least he got a ride to the top. I always had to climb.
FM is easy - the tower is just there to get the antenna up off the ground. AM towers are fully energized and small "buzzy" differences in potential between sections are not uncommon. Plus you have to mount them by leaping from a wooden ladder to avoid becoming an unwilling conductor.
We posture as apostles of fair play, as good sportsmen, as professional knights-errant-- and we throw beer bottles at the umpire when he refuses to cheat for our side...We save the black-and-tan republics from their native [statesmen]--and flood them with "deserving" democrats of our own. We deafen the world with our whoops for liberty--and submit to laws that destroy our most sacred rights...We play policeman and Sunday-school superintendent to half of Christendom--and lynch a darky every two days in our own backyard.
H.L. Mencken, 1914
