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From: commgrp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (BACS Data Communications Group)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Phantom 911 Dialer??
Message-ID: <38723@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 90 18:25:53 GMT
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heins@rt19.cs.wisc.edu (Scott Heins) writes:

>...at about 1:00am I received a phone call.
>The guy asked me "Did you dial 911??".  After a quick check...
>I confusingly told him "No".  

>...he asked if we had a cordless telephone, and I said "Yes". 
>He mentioned something about cordless phones that are low
>on battery power dialing "911".  (!!)

>...What the hell happened?? 


Ghod, what a nasty trick!!  Kids borrow cordless phone handset, 
drive around until they acquire a carrier, dial 911, listen to 
the "fun" on their scanner.  Hopefully, it wasn't your neighbors.

--

Frank Reid     reid@ucs.indiana.edu