Comments on: French Grow Suspicious Pine Trees

By: dh

dh — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:11:51 +0000

Es machts nichts! Moot points about camo on cell towers. With the increasing numbers of commuters and general population in Idaho you soon won’t be able to see the towers through our ever thickening SMOG anyway.
Even if we had fake trees to glimpse through the brown air we would be foolish indeed to take note of them. Any momentary distraction to our defensive driving could be disastrous. With all of the moronic texting drivers, the red light/STOP sign runners and the idiots with their cell phone in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other and the steering wheel on their elbows (or whatever it is that they attempt to steer with) any asthetics left here have been ruined anyway.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:31:10 +0000

Nice try, but it’s a shame the folks in France (and those in Coeur d’Alene) couldn’t find somebody who actually knew what a tree looked like to design the towers.
Keep trying, folks.

By: Timm!

Timm! — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:52:51 +0000

Cheap and tired shot at the French inside of 10 posts. Nice.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:12:15 +0000

I too have seen cell towers with camo to disguise their appearance along Hwy 14 in Lancaster, Ca. on my way to Los Angeles. You know they aren’t real trees but they are much more attractive than a stark cell tower.

It really boils down to community expectations. No expectations equals no effort to make these things look attractive in our communities.

By: Radiomedic

Radiomedic — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:57 +0000

oh more NIMBY. you all have cell phones, but oh, the towers look bad.
Hmmm…. AM radio stations go back 70+ years. You all want them taken down too? Get a life….

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:22:03 +0000

We sure wouldn’t want any novel idea’s in Idaho, now would we.
Wonder what it would take to get a news media to pick up on the idea.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:16:29 +0000

Disguise cell towers? This is the place where Idaho Power said in 1970 that they would be burying their lines — first the new ones and then as they needed to work on older lines, get them underground too. Well, the phone company actually did that. Idaho Power has just put in bigger and better poles and then have been cutting our trees to shreds to keep them away from the still-unburied lines.

By: Goobs222

Goobs222 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:18:17 +0000

There’s one like that located atop a hill between Coeur d’Alene and Harrison (east side of the lake). It looks like a large lone pine left standing after a hilltop was clear cut so it’s pretty visible — but at least it’s disguised as a tree and not a cell tower.

By: Eric T

Eric T — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:12:03 +0000

ahhh, france, the land of cheap weapons…..dropped once never fired.

By: Mr. Watcher

Mr. Watcher — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:00:02 +0000

We may not want to make them look like trees. My reasoning is if it really is the cells that are causing the bee’s to be dying off. And cells need to be outlawed and back to pagers. There’s no way the environmentalist will allow all those trees to be taking down.