Ah, revenge is sweet!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/t...?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print
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Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal
By MATT RICHTEL
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 — One afternoon in early September, an architect boarded his commuter train and became a cellphone vigilante. He sat down next to a 20-something woman who he said was “blabbing away” into her phone.
“She was using the word ‘like’ all the time. She sounded like a Valley Girl,” said the architect, Andrew, who declined to give his last name because what he did next was illegal.
Andrew reached into his shirt pocket and pushed a button on a black device the size of a cigarette pack. It sent out a powerful radio signal that cut off the chatterer’s cellphone transmission — and any others in a 30-foot radius.
“She kept talking into her phone for about 30 seconds before she realized there was no one listening on the other end,” he said. His reaction when he first discovered he could wield such power? “Oh, holy moly! Deliverance.”
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I know that sooner or later somebody will be making an emergency call and be blocked and there will be hell to pay. But, this is delicious. If I had this device, I'd turn it on the minute I walked into the library; or the bookstore; or the museum, and maybe even in the restaurant if warranted.
Freedom without responsibility always invites retaliation. Usually when I get a call and I know it will bother other people, I tell my caller I'll call them back and go somewhere more private.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/t...?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print
quote
Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal
By MATT RICHTEL
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 — One afternoon in early September, an architect boarded his commuter train and became a cellphone vigilante. He sat down next to a 20-something woman who he said was “blabbing away” into her phone.
“She was using the word ‘like’ all the time. She sounded like a Valley Girl,” said the architect, Andrew, who declined to give his last name because what he did next was illegal.
Andrew reached into his shirt pocket and pushed a button on a black device the size of a cigarette pack. It sent out a powerful radio signal that cut off the chatterer’s cellphone transmission — and any others in a 30-foot radius.
“She kept talking into her phone for about 30 seconds before she realized there was no one listening on the other end,” he said. His reaction when he first discovered he could wield such power? “Oh, holy moly! Deliverance.”
unquote
I know that sooner or later somebody will be making an emergency call and be blocked and there will be hell to pay. But, this is delicious. If I had this device, I'd turn it on the minute I walked into the library; or the bookstore; or the museum, and maybe even in the restaurant if warranted.
Freedom without responsibility always invites retaliation. Usually when I get a call and I know it will bother other people, I tell my caller I'll call them back and go somewhere more private.