Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 17 Apr 91 05:55:19 GMT From: "Mark D. Fisher" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: What Fire?? Channel 2 Uses Criss-Cross Message-ID: Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology 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 296, Message 9 of 14 Lines: 26 In article jens@mot.com (Jens von der Heide) writes: > "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?? > 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 once had a very similar experience: I had moved taking my old telephone number with me. Then several months later I received a call from the local tv news. He asked me about the fire in my building. Before I was in a complete panic, we realized what had happened. My old roommates were soon looking for a new place to live :-) Mark D. Fisher