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Bar In UK Uses Faraday Cage To Block Mobile Phone Signals (telegraph.co.uk)
Reader Bruce66423 writes: A cocktail bar owner has installed a Faraday cage in his walls to prevent mobile phone signals entering the building. Steve Tyler of the Gin Tub, in Hove, East Sussex, is hoping customers will be encouraged to talk to each other rather than looking at their screens. He has installed metal mesh in the walls and ceiling of the bar which absorbs and redistributes the electromagnetic signals from phones and wireless devices to prevent them entering the interior of the building. The effect was discovered in 1836 by scientist Michael Faraday and is often used in power plants or other highly charged environments to prevent shocks or interference with other electronic equipment. Some wallets are now cloaked in a similar flexible mesh to prevent data and credit card theft. Mr Tyler said he wanted to force "people to interact in the real world" and remember how to socialise. "I just wanted people to enjoy a night out in my bar, without being interrupted by their phones," he said. "So rather than asking them not to use their phones, I stopped the phones working. I want you to enjoy the experience of going out."
What if there's a terrorist attack in there? How will they call the police from the toilets?
No sig today...
I know! It'll be like the dark ages back in 1995 again. People died man. People died.
How will they call the police from the toilets?
This is the UK. Stand on the toilet, flush the toilet and escape down the drain. Wizards do it all the time.
My house is illegal!
It has chicken wire in the walls to hold on to the stucco and it is really good at blocking some wavelengths!
OH NOES!
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
People used to use public phone boxes. Since mobiles became ubiquitous in the UK these have almost all been sold off as garden furniture for the wealthy or converted into starter homes for the poorer.
Yes, you should avoid it completely.
You probably don't remember but back in the 80s when you had no cellphone, you probably died 3 or 4 times per year because you couldn't call the emergency services.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
How the *fuck* did we function during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s without mobile phones and *active* terrorist cells on the UK mainland carrying out IRA attacks?
We didn't. We didn't function during the troubles. We didn't function during the Blitz. We didn't function during the Black Death.
Don't you get it? Hipsters are the first truly functioning members of human society.
Pick it up; punch 999 (UK)
I think you meant 0118 999 881 999 119 7253. Here's a handy song to help you remember!