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- From: garnet@borland.com (Garnet Chaney)
- Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
- Subject: Re: ** THE FUTURE OF SCANNING? **
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.004727.19948@borland.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:47:27 GMT
- References: <4219@bcstec.ca.boeing.com> <679.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP>
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- Organization: Borland International
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- In article <679.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp) writes:
- >
- >Some of the police vehicles around here have cellular phones in them.
- >I picked up a conversation one night which made it obvious that the regular
- >channels were expected to be "public" but the cellular call wasn't!
-
- In one such call, the dispatcher was describing to the sargeant a caller
- who, when asked for directions to get to the place the caller was calling
- about, the caller started asking the dispatcher which hand was his left
- hand. When the dispatcher tried to explain it in terms of which side of
- the callers body his heart was on, the caller said he didn't know which
- side his heart was on, and asked again which was his left hand.....
-