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Man Drove Around with a Cellphone Jammer for Two Years Before Being caught
2014 May 1, 1:23am 751 views 1 comment
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Tenpoundbass
2014 May 1, 4:59am
If someone had a dire emergency to call in, then they would have stopped and stayed at the scene I hope. They certainly wouldn't pace a 60 year old busy body jackwagon. I could have passed his ass a thousand times and I would have never known. And if I didn't get a signal, it would have been short lived, because I would have just flew right by him in the right lane, while he was doing 40 in the left lane. I'm sure I gave him a disapproval "The Look" as I drove past. Just for him trying to regulate the left lane speed and everyone else behind him.
That being said, there should be cell phone jammers on ever stretch of highway in the United States, I bet it would save far more lives, than it cost. I mean we could go back to the way things were before Cellphones got cheaper than beef, and have a hardwired emergency phone every 1 mile or so.
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https://www.yahoo.com/tech/a-florida-resident-drove-around-with-a-cellphone-jammer-84369099229.html
Many states have banned talking on your cellphone while driving, but Florida is not one of them. So 60-year-old maverick Jason R. Humphreys took matters into his own hands.
As The Tampa Tribune reports, Humphreys brought a cellphone jammer along on his commute every day for two years. You know, to ensure that his fellow commuters remained focused on the road. Until two local sheriff’s deputies caught him in the act and slapped him with $48,000 worth of fines, which he must pay or otherwise respond to within a month.
It turns out that Humphreys would have gone undetected if it hadn’t been for a local carrier noticing that something was messing with its towers. MetroPCS (which is owned by T-Mobile) notified the Federal Communications Commission that there was a peculiar outage on a certain patch of the Interstate 4 highway and downtown Tampa exactly a year ago. The FCC looked into it and discovered that wideband emissions — broadcast activity with wide frequencies or wavelengths — were emanating from a blue Toyota Highlander.
Still, Humphreys went on jamming for another year until two county sheriff deputies pulled him over. They were able to confirm his use of the cellphone jammer before they even searched his vehicle and found it behind a seat cover. As they approached his SUV, their two-way radios were disconnected from their dispatcher.
The department later tested the device to discover that it could jam cell signals in three bands. Humphreys is alleged to have said that he’d been using the jammer for 16 to 24 months on his commute. Meaning pretty much everyone around him was unable to use a cellphone. Even someone who had a dire emergency to call in.
Whether this made any difference in the quality of Humphrey’s commute, we are unsure. Unsurprisingly, he does not seem to be taking calls at the moment.