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From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,misc.legal,alt.sex,misc.misc
Subject: Re: Phone Harassment
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Date: 15 Mar 90 05:05:24 GMT
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al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski) writes:
> In article <90071.220057SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu> SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> >
> >There's an even more interesting version of that going around near where I
> >lived. Get an air horn like the type used for small boats. Keep it handy by
> >the phone. Next time the bastard calls, give him a shot of that. It's almost
> >guarenteed that in 24 hrs or less he'll be stopping by an emergency room to
> >get work done on his ruptured eardrum.
> 
> Sure, and the TV station can blind all the viewers by shining a laser
> into the camera.  Does anyone have any evidence that anyone actually
> got his eardrum ruptured this way?  I don't mean, "I heard from a
> friend", I mean like first-hand experiences or articles from reputable
> sources.  If this happened to somebody, the first thing they would do,
> in this society, is sue the phone company and probably get rich.

Considering the rather low bandwidth of the phone signals and the way
the system is designed, I would bet that a signal loud enough to
actually cause serious ear damage would come through the line as
mostly distortion....  a phone connection isn't just a microphone on
one end w/ an amplifier on the other-- the switching equipment in
between will define the limits as being far below that dangerous of a
level.

obSex:  To the person comparing Sports and Sex:

my sport -- Frisbee Ultimate... a non-contact sport. But I can
guarantee you that my sex life is a full-contact sport... 

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