Monday, June 29, 2009

Cell Jammers

There is hope for civilization after all!!! Cell phone jammers are becoming a popular weapon against those boorish, annoying, inane cell addicts who can't shut up in public by shutting off their phones. Jammers are those little gadgets one can carry and use against a cell abuser to render a cell phone useless. Just a press of a button a radio signal is emitted that is so powerful that phones are shut down and unable to communicate with cell towers. All cell phone within a range of about 25 meters are jammed. No calls can be made or continued, no annoying chatter, civility reigns. Given that the jammers are not especially expensive they are a tempting way of shutting done dell addicts who abuse public peace and serenity.
But as much as I hate cell phones, I am not an advocate and would never use a jammer on anyone. Not only is it illegal to block the protected radio frequencies that cell use the jammer clocks all calls in it's range. And cell phone providers are businesses that pay billions of dollars to lease frequencies for their customers (both good and bad behaving ones) So they idiot who blabs loudly about what bread to buy at the grocery is put in the same class as the mom using her cell for an emergency medical call in seeking assistance for her ill child. The jammer does not discriminate between the useful public cell call and the 99% of other publicly made cell phone calls which are just plan disgustingly annoying.
Ha! It is the ultimate irony of today. In this age of selfishness, when cell addicts make our lives less pleasant with their endless stupid calls, the cell jammer behaves just as badly. The cell abuser thinks his or her rights exceed those of people around him or her and the jammer thinks his right to block the worst cell offenders are more important than the right to use a cell phone by all others.
So if someone who hates cell phones as much as I isn't using a jammer, who is? Apparently, sales are booming everywhere in the world and the most frequent buyers are not individuals who have just had be enough and cant take anymore of those rude calls, but business owners who can't stop their employees from chatting while on the job or who want to provide their customers a business area free of cell yaking. The sellers also say that many professional types use jammers, even doctors and other medical personnel whose clients seem not to be able to read the signs that tell them to TURN OFF CELL PHONES WHILE IN OFFICE.
One bus driver in New York was caught jamming the phones of the students he transports to school each day because he said the kids "never shut up when on their phones and were driving me crazy". Hmmmmmmmmm Maybe a cell jammer should be passed out to every teacher in a school to enforce the no cell phone rule on campus.
I don't endorse using jammers, but the fact that they are now hot items for sale (instead of cell phones, some people are even buying jammers as Christmas gifts for cell haters like me) and are a first attack against the public rudeness that we all endure when the cell nuts chatter away at length in public about nothing, tells me that there is hope for civilization after all. Many people have had enough and are now demanding that when in public the cell user simply turn it off and use it out of sight and ear range.

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