I guess you don't know this well kept secret but "microwaves" ARE radio waves. They are just at a much higher frequency then what your radio and TV set use. For the same reason you don't want to sit inside a microwave oven you don't want to stand in front of a radar antenna. Both use "microwave" frequencies and both are absorbed by whatever hunk of meat is in their path. The absorbed energy dissipates in the meat and turns to heat. It was this sort of accident around radar that gave someone the idea of making a microwave oven.
And mere exposure to microwaves won't kill you. If you travel by plane or are ever near an airport (or a police radar gun for that matter) you get exposed to microwaves. It is only if you get VERY close to the transmitting antenna that you have a problem. The more powerful the transmitter, the farther away "close" is.
-- Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts:
"What, sir, is the use of militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. . . Whenever Government means to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise a standing army upon its ruins." -- Debate, U.S. House of Representatives, August 17, 1789