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Article #4387Re: Phone Harassment
From: Gordon Burditt
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 23:23
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 23:23
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!texbell!merch!sneaky!gordon From: gordon@sneaky.UUCP (Gordon Burditt) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,misc.legal Subject: Re: Phone Harassment Message-ID: <29471@sneaky.UUCP> Date: 16 Mar 90 23:23:28 GMT References: <21849@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <13746@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <90071.220057SAB121@psuvm.psu.edu> <1185@gtx.com> <AZzm_Iy00VoE46Oac6@andrew.cmu.edu> <1990Mar16.001210.27602@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Followup-To: sci.electronics Distribution: na Organization: Gordon Burditt Lines: 19