Churches Installing Cell Phone Jammers

[neomonkey]

MONTERREY, Mexico Oct. 16, 2004 — It was the reporters who noticed first. Unable to call their editors while covering the weddings of the rich and famous, they asked the priest why their cell phones never worked at Sacred Heart. His reply: Israeli counterintelligence.

In four Monterrey churches, Israeli-made cell phone jammers the size of paperbacks have been tucked unobtrusively among paintings of the Madonna and statues of the saints.

The jarring polychromatic din of ringing cell phones is increasingly being thwarted from religious sanctuaries to India's parliament to Tokyo theaters and commuter trains by devices originally developed to help security forces avert eavesdropping and thwart phone-triggered bombings.

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[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Damn they could do a JONESTOWN in there and no one would know

[IHateFundies]

2. damn fundies trying to censor phone calls

so no one can find out their evil plans!

[LARED]

3. Great idea

Cell phone (if used without discretion) are incredibly irritating.

[napi21]

4. Boy could I think of some places I'd like to have these things!

[IronLionZion]

5. What if someone has to call 911?

I would think that simply telling assholes to turn the motherfucking things off at the beginning of mass would be sufficient. And just ban reporters from going inside.

[charlie]

6. Step outside

And people already know without being told, shut the things off before church, a movie, etc, but they don't bother, do they?

[Kanary]

7. oh yeah, people are so willing to be considerate. NOT.

People insisting on their right to do whatever they damned well please have created this.

Those who pay lots of $$ to go to a play, or a musical or a symphony concert, and have it continually interrupted by cell phones are fed up with it!

Kanary

[Ezlivin]

8. You can buy your own cell phone jammer if you want it

http://www.globalgadgetuk.com/Personal.htm

This could be pretty nice to have in a movie theatre or restaurant.

However, you could keep a doctor from getting an emergency call, so it's not without its "side-effects".

[Logansquare]

10. Illegal in the United States. Believe me, I've checked. n/t

[beyurslf]

9. Notice they are all in other countries. I am pretty sure this would be

considered illegal here.