Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police

[vienna]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110518/us_yblog_thelookout/loud-cell-phone-talker-removed-from-quiet-car-by-police

I am glad to see this happening; overly loud or inappropriate louts who seem to believe the world needs to hear their business should be silenced and, if necessary, fined. I live in Los Angeles and make use of the Beverly Hills Public Library from time to time. Beverly Hills is a small city in L.A. county and only has one branch paid for and built by the City of Beverly Hills. The library is modern beautiful, modern, well equipped and well kept unlike the library branches in the surrounding city of Los Angeles. However, being Beverly Hills, there are a lot of people who are wealthy and they and their families seem to think they can do as they please whenever they please, including using cell phones, loudly, in the library. Beverly Hills has a ban on cell phone use in the library and really does enforce it. There are police guards in the library and when they see cell phone use or it is reported that someone is using a cell phone in a loud manner they are asked to stop. If they refuse, they are removed from the library immediately. I have seen this happen and the response from the other patrons in the area has been uniform approval. What is disturbing is the attitude of those using cell phones who seem to think that their call is somehow exempt from the rules; the amount of resistance and abuse the officers get from these people makes me appreciate the difficulty of their jobs in dealing with these jerks. I would love to have a device that I could point at the offending phone and render it useless for about an hour...

[rant over...]

[Platapus]

Virginia seems to be full of really important people who think that their phone calls, unlike everyone elses, is just too important.

[FIREWALL]

Louts ? And least we not forget Brigands and Hooligans.

Seriously I've heard mothers yell across the library at one another...

Hey Betty how was your weekend !!! And the librarians could care less.

" I would love to have a device that I could point at the offending phone and render it useless for about an hour..."


btw vienna there is such a device. A Stun Gun

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

btw vienna there is such a device. A Stun Gun

Too harmless!
Those annoying "I'm the most important person in the world" cell phone yellers should be tormented with a LRAD

[Betonov]

The best thing to do (proven, trust me) is to drink some carbonated drink, step really close to the guy and BUUUURP like there's no tommorow into his ear and cellphone.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by vienna

I would love to have a device that I could point at the offending phone and render it useless for about an hour...

[rant over...]

Of course it may not be strictly legal, depending on where you live...

[vienna]

Louts ? And least we not forget Brigands and Hooligans.

I blame it all on my old-school mid-century Catholic school education; a rather unpleasant educational environment but one that instilled in me a wide and sometimes (to others) amusing vocabulary. Speaking of hooligans, does anyone know the origin of the word "hoodlum"? (I do and it is interesting.)

The best thing to do (proven, trust me) is to drink some carbonated drink, step really close to the guy and BUUUURP like there's no tommorow into his ear and cellphone.

Some years ago, a friend of mine and myself were so annoyed at a lout (had to use the word again ) talking very long and loudly on his cell phone we moved next to him and started to loudly comment about his end of the conversation and speculate on the possible responses from the person with whom he was speaking. After a few minutes of this, he left the building and we accepted the applause of the other people in the room.

Of course it may not be strictly legal, depending on where you live...

Jamming devices are not legal in my area and according to the the following may not be legal in the entire U.S.:

http://www.spygear4u.com/helpct.asp?show=1&hid=71&cat=17

The concept of "property theft" somehow seems a bit of a stretch to me...

btw vienna there is such a device. A Stun Gun

Would you recommend its use against the phone or the caller?...

[Falkirion]

How expensive would it be for someone to install a localized jamming field? We have ECM jamming so surely it could be applied to jam mobile/cell phone signals from getting through.

[Lord_magerius]

One word... VERY

It's not cheap equipment, it would be much cheaper to have a guy on hand with a really big knife. Just cut their tongues out, lets see them shout when they're now completely mute. Though knowing these people they would just text, so you would hear, BEEP BEEP, Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrvt.
EHEHEHEHEHREOHASODJHSMSANBSD<MASDASLJHHKJASKHD CJ!
(That's the sound of laughter from somebody who has had their tongue cut out)

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Falkirion

How expensive would it be for someone to install a localized jamming field? We have ECM jamming so surely it could be applied to jam mobile/cell phone signals from getting through.

You could build such a system into the building material itself. While the law clearly prohibits using a device to actively disrupt a cell-phone signal, there are no rules against passive cell-phone blocking. That means using things like wallpaper or building materials embedded with metal fragments to prevent cell-phone signals from reaching inside or outside the room. Some buildings already have designs that unintentionally block radio signals due to thick concrete walls or a steel skeleton.

Originally Posted by Betonov

The best thing to do (proven, trust me) is to drink some carbonated drink, step really close to the guy and BUUUURP like there's no tommorow into his ear and cellphone.

This ,but I'd give the drink to my 4 year old ,he's got this amazing talent when he drinks something he can let rip with these huge burps ,sort of like they start and keep going at an impressive volume he then sits and giggle afterwards and blame our dining table

[August]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

You could build such a system into the building material itself. While the law clearly prohibits using a device to actively disrupt a cell-phone signal, there are no rules against passive cell-phone blocking. That means using things like wallpaper or building materials embedded with metal fragments to prevent cell-phone signals from reaching inside or outside the room. Some buildings already have designs that unintentionally block radio signals due to thick concrete walls or a steel skeleton.

Cell phones are a problem in the classroom. Why can't their signals be actively jammed?

[Sailor Steve]

I had to read the article twice before I understood what a "Quiet Car" is.

[Castout]

I was removed from the church vicinity Thursday during this Easter because I asked for the people who were coughing loudly, persistently, annoyingly and liberally to try to quiet down and offered them candies to soothe their throat.

One of the people I offered candies reacted violently to me and threatened me. I objected to his reaction and threat but I was the only one escorted out with many actually laughing at me no less.

I've decided to leave the Catholic church

I no longer consider myself a Catholic.

Damn chickens. Up for slaughter and yet they dream of heaven? Chickens belong to this earth. Plain stupidity is common I guess and the dare would always take advantage of these people. Weakling, stupid, powerless. No God in these people for certain. Only talks and day dreaming. But they are happy only with talks and day dreaming so see nothing wrong with that.



Only eagles belong to heaven.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by August

Cell phones are a problem in the classroom. Why can't their signals be actively jammed?

Because they just might jam important calls in the school vicinity.