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Gothamist loves our cellphone. In fact, we'd probably be a shell of ourselves if we didn't have it. But there are times when we want that other obnoxious person to stop yakking - no one needs to hear how he almost slept with that hot girl, no one needs to hear how she almost maybe bought those cute heels (okay, maybe not no one, but not us). And those loudmouths on the plane who think they're Donald Trump, on the phone until the flight attendants says "turn then off" and right after the plane "dings" at landing, Gothamist hates them as much as the fools who keep their phone on "ring" during movies. That's why the popularity of cellphone jammers fascinates us. The Post talked to a couple spy shops and jammer purchasers. Restaurateurs are buying them, and some suspect hotels buy them to make people use the expensive hotel phones. But what about the text messaging?
Would you jam people's cellphones? Or are you in need of jamming? Of course, jammers are illegal, but isn't music sharing, to a certain extent?
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Lord knows I despise cellphone loudmouths, but when you buy a $1500 device just to annoy others, that's idiotic.
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I don't know Kevin, some people find Inconveniencing and annoying the hell out of others extremely valuable, especially when it saves you from hearing people yap on and on and on when your trapped with them on the train such as the LIRR.
Drop it down to 300 and I'd buy it
>>>I don't know Kevin, some people find Inconveniencing and annoying the hell out of others extremely valuable, especially when it saves you from hearing people yap on and on and on when your trapped with them on the train such as the LIRR.
I'm with ya there Kojak, I ride the LIRR and the subways, but when that happens, I just change my seat. Sometimes I change seats twice. You have your cell phone yakkers, and then there's your gum poppers. But I'll spend my $1500 on something else...
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has it ever occurred to these people to turn to the chatty person behind them and say "can you please talk more quietly?", "you are being rude," or "i'm sure you can text message. that's why they invented it." these people buying expensive cell phone jammers must be the most socially neurotic/anxious people on the planet, or just plain passive aggressive geeks. what normal private citizen frequents a "spy shop?" i mean, christ.
it's simple. open your mouth and tell the person behind you to shut up. if you don't assert your feelings of annoyance and give notice to the person annoying you, then it's really partially your fault for allowing the annoyance to continue.
...and the best part about using your god-given ability to open your mouth and tell the chump behind you to be quiet is that it's FREE! :D
Here's an alternative to the expensive jamming device.
SHHH Cards
The device shown in the entry costs around $300. It really works. I have one.
bertie, sounds good, but have you ever actually tried telling a stranger to keep it down? no matter how cordial, it usually backfires.
Unilaterally silencing someone's Cell phone strikes me as rude and arrogant. If people have a problem with someone speaking too loud, IMO, they should just speak up and ask them to quiet down.
This "silencer" would prevent incoming calls too. As someone who got 3 calls for an family emergency in the last two years, I'd have been p/o'ed at someone preventing me from getting an emergency call on a train just 'cause someone else is loud.
Its not like I (as an example) would keep it on all the time while im on the train. If theres someone whos too damn loud, yapping about BS, I'll just flip it on and off just to cut them off, then again if they retry and continue, and so forth.
Yes I would get pleasure and satisfaction, yes its rude. But people have no common sense.
Besides if I asked em to be quite and they ignored me (which is probably what they would do), it would give myself away as the jammer.
Quiet*
Would these zappers also prevent the use of silent wireless devices like blackberries or stop people from text messaging? If I was an LIRR commuter and found out someone was preventing me from using a wireless card on my laptop, I'd be pretty PO'd.
Notice the one zapper user they quote directly wasn't silencing someone talking during a movie, he was following him around a mall and thought the frustration he was causing was "funny" and "cool." Sounds like obnoxious a**holes targeting obnoxious a**holes.
This is like stun-gunning some jerk who puts his feet up on a subway seat. Technology is a poor replacement for the encouragement of good manners.
The Jammer usually would only target a certain Frequency and fills it with static and crap. Since text messeging uses the same Frequency, then texting wont work either. Your wireless card, if 2.4 ghz or 5 will still probably work, unless it uses the cell network.
Wow can't wait till i get mine.
You'll be pissed and you wont know who it is.
Oh, how did anyone ever deal with emergencies before the age of cellphones? It must have been the dark ages!
hijiki:
yes, i have, and most of the time, if you ask nicely, people tend to listen.
are you nuts? If somebody is to much of an a**hole to know they are being rude, the it is doubtful they will care when you ask them to pipe down. Once I ask, and they refuse it is on, im only going to get more angry and probably snatch the phone from them and beat them with it. Cell phone jammers save lives.
Please!
fight fire with fire.
f*ck em.
I purchased a cell phone jammer on E-BAY from overseas and it works very well. Some people say I might be jamming important communications but I tell them go back to using a regular wired phone like we used to do. When I am driving and see another driver talking on one I press the on button and it is funny in a way when all of a sudden they attempt to redial or even hit the phone thinking it went bananas. It has good range, about 50 feet or more and was told there is an amplifier device that can extend the range much farther. The jammer is used mostly while I am in my favorite restaurant and can enjoy a meal without hearing "can you hear me now" or annoying ringing. The device only cost $239 plus shiping and is the best electronic device I ever owned.
Would it block wireless webcam transmissions???
Tell me where to buy the jammer... would love to silence the loud mouths on the metro bus.