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South Carolina Wants To Jam Cell Phone Signals
Corey Brook writes "The South Carolina state prison system wants the FCC to grant them and local officers permission to block cell phone signals. News has been out about the growing problem of them perps smuggling cell phones into prisons for a while now. Inmates use cell phones as commerce, to implement fraud, smuggle drugs and weapons, and to order hits. Of course, some may use it to just talk to a loved one any time they can." Hopefully movie theaters and restaurants do it next.
Sounds like you weren't watching the movie then. Maybe your problem was a crappy movie?
Somebody who's on-call could carry an old fashioned non-blocked pager.
The cinema's phone blocker could easily detect 911 calls and turn off the the blocking if it detected one.
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Only if you have something to hide.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
That's a bit like banning alcohol to keep people from driving drunk.
In what way? Jamming inside the theater doesn't affect anything outside the theater. Nobody's takking about banning cell phones, just blocking them in theaters.
What if there's a fire?
The fire fighters in my town are at the firehouse when on duty. Aren't yours?
A crime?
You live in Mayberry? If an on-duty Springfield cop is watching movies I would hope there would be disciplinary action against him.
A doctor with an emergency who knows how to stand up and walk out when he gets a call?
Again, your hick town only has one doctor? You kids (understandably) act as if cell phones have always existed and everyone always had one. The doctor can let management know he's there and where he's sitting, if someone needs to get hold of the doctor they can call the theater's phone, and the management can fetch the doctor, just like they used to do before we had cell phones.
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I have a cell phone with me at all times due to my daughter's extensive health problems. Am I not allowed to go to the movies or out to eat?
When you get to the theater, tell the manager about your situation, let him or her know where you're sitting and that there may be an emergency phone call.
I'm sorry for your problems, but we all have problems. My roomate is in the hospital dying of cancer, but that's MY problem. Don't make YOUR problems mine as well.
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Well, since prioners get fed and are housed, lets hope you go to sleep outside and hungry tonight, because God forbid your life be like you're in prison.
Nobody's making you go to the theater. If you can't live without a cell phone for two hours, 1. stay the hell out of the theater and 2. get some psychological help; you have mental problems.
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Hard problems? It is people like you that have caused the hard problems with your bleeding heart whining about the poor criminal scum in prison. You are too busy trying to make the criminals comfortable that you have forgotten the punishment aspect. No doubt you don't believe in personal responsibility and believe all the criminals are actually victims of society.
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