Xeni writes in Wired about a wireless mesh network for Tibetan dissidents in Dharamsala, India:

This may be one of the only networks in the world where antennas must be monkey-proofed. “Monkeys are everywhere,” says Ben-David. “Often, you’ll see a huge, gorilla-sized monkey hang on to an antenna, swing from it, eat it, try to break it. We lost a lot of cables that way, but now we use very strong equipment so that even monkeys can’t break it.” [Link]

What struck me was this description of using religious symbols to achieve a specific end:

Because Hindu temples are often built on hilltops, these are sought out as antenna sites. Sometimes the antennas are painted with religious symbols like the Sanskrit om so locals will welcome their presence. [Link]

In the U.S., church steeples often house cell phone transmitters at a tidy profit, but all they usually require is that the transmitters be hidden.

In a lower-tech veinome apartment compounds in Bombay have walls with landscaping which camouflage open gutters. Every few meters there are wide gaps in the foliage to allow overhead drainage. On the walls in those gaps, the builders have mounted tile portraits of Hindu deities to discourage workmen from pissing against the walls.