Re: Legality of: Cell-Phone signal blocking

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:15:29 -0400, Straydog <asd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:


>
>OK, I'll start this thread. Cell phones are nice and convenient and being

>used too much by the "me" generation who have come to the point where
they 
>can't live without "keeping in touch" with all the members of their
social 
>butterfly community and doing this in all kinds of inappropriate settings

>(eg. busy traffic where cell phone distraction is known to be a factor in

>accidents, movie theaters, church services, restaurants, and just
recently 
>at my barber shop where a guy carried on his commercial business in a
loud
>tone of voice so everyone heard his side and after he hung up the damned
>thing rang and it took him five minutes to get it out of his pocket again
>so we all had to listen to that annoying jingle all that time.
>
>Yes, I have one. It is always turned off. I call it my heart-attack-car-
>accident-emergency phone.
>
I just hope that when you find the need to use your heart-attack-car-
accident-emergency phone, someone else is jamming you!  Think about
it.  I am in agreement that there are some people who should never be
on the phone while driving.  OTOH there are people out there who can
handle it, and need to use it to continue to make a living.  

For example, I am a service engineer who happens to work on MRI
systems.  How would you like to be the patient in one of those systems
when something occurs, that is a simple phone fix, and the person with
the knowledge to fix it cannot be reached because some
holier-than-thou jerk with a jammer is preventing it?  It's ok.  Even
though you've been injected with the proper contrast agent, you can
always come back later and have it injected again.  If you're lucky
the delay won't be life threatening.  
There are other people like me who work on CT systems.  There are no
trauma centers in the USA these days which does not have at least one
CT close by.  Then there are the people who work on systems that are
in operating rooms.  How would like to have to be opened up a second
time because of a delay in getting a phone fix?

Jammers can be used effectively to block signals that might set off
explosive devices and that I agree with, even if lives might be put at
risk in the process.  But that decision should be in the hands of
those that have the responsibility to make the decisions for the
safety of the general public, not someone who is tired of driving
behind some teenage girl trying to talk on the phone and put on makeup
while navigating through traffic.