Free Beach WiFi Here, In Time To Ruin Workaholic Vacations

2009_06_beachlaptop.jpg Officials in Babylon have announced that the town will become the first on the Atlantic seaboard to offer free WiFi at beaches, parks and pools. The Suffolk County town will be opening four separate internet cafes at its various beaches over the next few weeks, the first one debuting this weekend at Overlook Beach. The cafes will also offer three free laptops as loaners and the signal will be strong enough to reach nearby boaters. Babylon Supervisor Steve Bellone told the Post, "For the first time you'll be able to surf the Internet. It is very cool. We're very excited. You can take it down to the water, you can go into the water, if you want to." Less cool news recently came out of nearby Robert Moses State Park, where the only signal beach goers were getting was from Park officials telling them to head elsewhere since large portions of the shore had to be closed off due to erosion.

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Those laptops better be secured...

Laptop can double as a boogie board after it's ruined by sand and sea.

Be prepared for the number of public masturbation incidents to increase...

I was just saying to my friends at Breezy Point the other week, "The only thing that would make this summer beach day better would be stuffonmycat.com."

isn't this counterproductive to being on a beach?

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End of days. This is how we know evil has triumphed.

Is that Ralph Sampson? Where's Hakeem the Dream?

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There's nothing I love more than sand in my laptop. I'm waiting for the lawsuits to somehow be invented.

I can see it now, class included—

Beach Goer: I fuckin' got sand in my fuckin' laptop.

City of Babylon: Well who told you to bring your computer to the beach?

BG: But... fuckin' free fuckin' wi-fi...

CoB: And???

BG: Fuck you guys, I'm fuckin' suin'.

CoB: Suin' What? Who?

BG: I'm fuckin' suin' you fuckin' guys and your fuckin' beach covered sand, and ya fuckin' know fuckin' what? I'm gonna sue the fuckin' ocean too and all that fuckin' salt that fucked my shit up, yo. Fuck!

CoB: Godspeed.

BG: Fuck you, I pay your fuckin' taxes, bitch.

Get a ToughBook. I think Panasonic and Dell make them, and you could use those in a sandstorm or tsunami if need be. I'm sure they're expensive, though.

wow!This is really great!
This seems to give new way of easy communication.This serves as the barrier of communication in business or personal things.

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