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From: aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,sci.electronics,misc.legal,alt.sex
Subject: Re: Phone Harassment
Message-ID: <1990Mar15.054819.26912@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 90 05:48:19 GMT
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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.


In <1185@gtx.com> al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski) writes:
>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.



I, of course, have no technical references handy. There is a decibel
limit to the sound going through the telephone, and while it is high
enough to be annoying, it is not high enough to cause damage. If
you really care, you could ask on comp.dcom.telecom.


aem



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