Re: Legality of: Cell-Phone signal blocking

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Russell Patterson wrote:

> 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!

You are a big jerk.

  Think about
> it.  I am in agreement that there are some

Most people should NOT be ever using a cell phone WHILE driving.

  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.

The vast majority of cell phone use (more than 99.9%) is for non-essential

social chit-chat and the human race got along fine up until just recently.

> 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?

Because you guys can't think of a better way to deal with a technical 
problem, in a limited location, where probably no one else is around to be

disturbed by senseless, purposeless, idle chatter?

You can go jump in the lake.

  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.
>