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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 11:07:35 EST
- From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@BRL.MIL>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Call Boxes (was Telephone Lines Being Disconnected)
- Message-ID: <telecom12.858.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- Re PAT's note about cellular phones on Chicago-area highways: Some
- highways (including the interstate highways in Delaware) have call
- boxes, although I've seen it written up somewhere that you might not
- end up right at a call box. Maryland does not have this, and when my
- previous car broke down there with what turned out to be a blown head
- gasket, I had to wait on the shoulder for the state police who were on
- routine patrol.
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-
- [Moderator's Note: The problem here is that it very unwise to get out
- of your car and wait by the side of the expressway. For example, on
- the Dan Ryan expressway, which runs next to several housing projects
- on the south side of Chicago has roaming maruders on it quite often
- who set upon stalled motorists, assaulting and robbing them, etc. Even
- when your vehicle is moving, they fire at you with assault rifles and
- the like from the buildings along the side of the expressway. PAT]
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