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From: gordon@sneaky.UUCP (Gordon Burditt)
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Subject: Re: Phone Harassment
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Date: 16 Mar 90 23:23:28 GMT
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>I saw an interesting method of getting back at phone harrassers - It
>involves a car battery, a large capacitor, and some wiring thru your phone.
>I'm not gonna go into it, but if you go through a certain sequence, you can
>send a surge through Ma Bell's wires, straight into the offender's
>handset..........

This sounds like an excellent way to get a large bill from the phone
company to fix its central office, to have your service disconnected,
and possibly charges against you for destruction of property.
That's what happened when some guy in college at the same time I was
tried hooking up his stereo system on full volume directly into the
phone line.

And if it actually succeeds in hurting the guy on the other end,
you're in real trouble.  This guy didn't; mostly he succeeded in
breaking his own phone service.

						Gordon L. Burditt
						sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon