Originally Posted by mlbcard

Those are cool... how did you get it, they seem to be illegal in US, UK, and EU (unless you are a government or research organization)?

Originally Posted by mlbcard

Those are cool... how did you get it, they seem to be illegal in US, UK, and EU (unless you are a government or research organization)?

Originally Posted by mid

It's a Federal Misdemeanor here in the US.

Not only are they illegal to sell or own BUT using one will get you a nice long stay at the nearest federal facility as well as a slew of charges related to interfering with an emergency service.

Those blockers don't just interfere with the cellphone you are pissed off about. They kill the cellphones for a good distance away. If someone else was making a 911 call from down the street or from a car, they'd be cut off because of the jammer.

From the FCC website:

FCC Website on Jammers...

Operations
Blocking & Jamming

The operation of transmitters designed to jam or block wireless communications is a violation of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended ("Act"). See 47 U.S.C. Sections 301, 302a, 333. The Act prohibits any person from willfully or maliciously interfering with the radio communications of any station licensed or authorized under the Act or operated by the U.S. government. 47 U.S.C. Section 333. The manufacture, importation, sale or offer for sale, including advertising, of devices designed to block or jam wireless transmissions is prohibited. 47 U.S.C. Section 302a(b). Parties in violation of these provisions may be subject to the penalties set out in 47 U.S.C. Sections 501-510. Fines for a first offense can range as high as $11,000 for each violation or imprisonment for up to one year, and the device used may also be seized and forfeited to the U.S. government.

Sec 501 of US Code Ch 47

From ths US Code:

Sec. 501. General penalty

Any person who willfully and knowingly does or causes or suffers to be done any act, matter, or thing, in this chapter prohibited or declared to be unlawful, or who willfully and knowingly omits or fails to do any act, matter, or thing in this chapter required to be done, or willfully and knowingly causes or suffers such omission or failure, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished for such offense, for which no penalty (other than a forfeiture) is provided in this chapter, by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both; except that any person, having been once convicted of an offense punishable under this section, who is subsequently convicted of violating any provision of this chapter punishable under this section, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or both.

Originally Posted by andrewsheehan

Easy, just ordered on the company website, they shipped right to me in the U.S., DHL Next Day Air even. I think they pust "testing equipment" or something on the customs invoice.

Originally Posted by studentff

That's more courtesy than either of the people in my example gave. I've heard stories of laptop screens being broken by the effects of sudden unannounced reclines, let alone drink/food spills.

Originally Posted by Canarsie

sometimes a situation arises where one knows that simply asking the perpetrator to stop will result in either no viable solution to the problem at hand or perhaps even worsen the problem.

Originally Posted by OutOfOffice

Next time I am in an airport restroom and hear some idoiot talking on his cell phone inside a stall I plan on flushing every toilet all at once.

Originally Posted by OutOfOffice

Next time I am in an airport restroom and hear some [idiot] talking on his cell phone inside a stall I plan on flushing every toilet all at once.

Originally Posted by Canarsie

What�s Your �Hang-Up�?: The Hotel Room Telephone Constantly Ringing Revenge

When I am in a hotel room for the night, I usually enjoy peace and quiet without incident. However, on occasion, I sometimes find myself unlucky enough to be next to a room where the inconsiderate guest(s) will blatantly do one or more of the following at inexcusably late hours with no regard whatsoever for other guests (such as myself) who are trying to fall asleep:

• Yell or talk loudly on the telephone or to each other
• Unnecessarily increase the volume of their television or radio for extended periods of time
• Constantly laugh loudly
• Continuously enter and exit their room while allowing the door to slam loudly and uncontrollably
• Bang into or drag around their furniture.

Usually, a fairly reliable theorem is that those who stay up late and cause these problems usually sleep late the next morning.

If calls to the front desk are futile and produce no results in terms of resolving the matter at hand and nothing else works, what I will do as revenge is wake up early the next morning, pick up the telephone and call the room of the offending guest(s). By the way, I always ensure that I am calling the correct room. I press my ear against the wall to the next room to monitor movement of the guest(s). I then hang up the telephone by quietly using my finger at the exact second the telephone receiver is picked up in the next room. I listen through the wall as the guest usually mutters �Hello. Hello?� while half asleep and then hangs up.

I will give a couple of minutes and do something (such as wash up, brush my teeth, etc.) to give the guest a chance to lay back down in bed and go back to sleep before I repeat the same procedure above. Once again, the guest says �Hello. Hello?� and then hangs up.

I then immediately call back and repeat the procedure again. By this time the guest starts to become irritated: �Hello. Hello!� and then hangs up in sheer frustration.

I do this several more times while randomly varying the time between telephone calls to keep the guest off-guard, always ensuring that the telephone continuously rings before �coincidentally� hanging up the second the guest answers the telephone: �Hello! HELLO!!!� and then slams the receiver of the telephone in absolute disgust.

An added bonus is when there is more than one guest in the room and they discuss the telephone situation in disgust and in desperation, not knowing if the telephone is merely malfunctioning. Usually, this does not require an ear pressed against the wall, as they will usually be as loud during their discussion as they were the night before.

At worst, I leave the room that morning satisfied with exacting harmless payback against an inconsiderate offender. At best, I have ruined their morning and possibly their day.

By the way, depending on the situation, this idea could also work well before going to sleep or, better yet, during the middle of the night if one finds that one cannot go to sleep due to the selfishly inconsiderate acts of the perpetrator.

Originally Posted by Luckylxe

People just don't no idea how rude they are in some peoples eyes blabbing off on their phones in public all the time. Can't it wait? I wouldn't do that unless it was seriously important.