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From: georgep@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (George Pell)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Phantom 911 Dialer??
Message-ID: <4832@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 90 23:26:01 GMT
References: <38723@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: georgep@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (George Pell)
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In article <38723@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> commgrp@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (BACS Data Communications Group) writes:
+heins@rt19.cs.wisc.edu (Scott Heins) writes:
+
+>The guy asked me "Did you dial 911??".  ...
+
+>...he asked if we had a cordless telephone, and I said "Yes". 
+
+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.
+
My cordless will not dial if it is in the cradel.  My PC drives the
thing nuts if it is not hung up.  Likely they just got the wrong
number.