Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 5 Apr 91 05:45:08 GMT From: Jens von der Heide Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: What Fire?? Channel 2 Uses Criss-Cross Message-ID: Organization: Motorola Inc. Software Research & Development, Rolling Mdws, IL Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 271, Message 4 of 12 Lines: 21 The other day my roomate received a strange call: "Hi, I'm calling from Channel 2 News. Could you tell me if you see a building on fire next door ?? Are there a lot of fire trucks around?? Are you sure?? Could you look out your window ?? Well, OK, bye." Needless to say, there was no fire activity around. Later that night the mystery was explained. We recently moved, and, kept the same phone number. The apartment next door to our previous address was on fire. Apparently, the local news station looked up our phone in a phone directory that lists numbers by address and probably wanted to see if the activity was worth covering. I don't what eventually happened, except that some former neighbors are out of an apartment. jens@corp.mot.com Voice: (708) 576-3312 UUCP: uunet!motcid!jens