Re: Watch out if you've more than one phone..!

Ivor Jones wrote:
>
> I heard a report on local radio the other day that police in the West
> Midlands are asking for people to inform on those that have several
> mobile phones

Don't be daft!

"llort" <l@l.com> wrote in message
news:fqa3uc$2rr$1@aioe.org
: : Ivor Jones wrote:
: : :
: : : I heard a report on local radio the other day that
: : : police in the West Midlands are asking for people to
: : : inform on those that have several mobile phones
: :
: : Don't be daft!

I'm not. It's been reported in the press as well as on the radio.

The *idea* is certainly daft, but I'm not.

Ivor

On 1 Mar, 02:08, "Ivor Jones" <i...@thisaddressis.invalid> wrote:
> "llort" <l...@l.com> wrote in message
>
> news:fqa3uc$2rr$1@aioe.org
> : : Ivor Jones wrote:
> : : :
> : : : I heard a report on local radio the other day that
> : : : police in the West Midlands are asking for people to
> : : : inform on those that have several mobile phones
> : :
> : : Don't be daft!
>
> I'm not. It's been reported in the press as well as on the radio.
>
> The *idea* is certainly daft, but I'm not.

Daft alright

There was some case in America a couple of years where 2 or 3 men who
happened to be Muslims were persecuted by the authorities for buying
50 or 100 phones and transporting them to sell to a dealer somewhere
else

Mind you, the original cheap roaming SIM from Swisscom was dropped
when it appeared that some of them were in use in rather dodgy areas
of the Middle East

Somewhere in on or around this desk are about 10 phones and over 20
SIM cards. If the phones have a secondhand value of only a quid or
two, what is the point of selling or throwing them away?

I once surprised the security staff at Schoenefeld airport by having 5
phones, but she didn't object

On 29 Feb, 23:19, llort <l...@l.com> wrote:
> Ivor Jones wrote:
>
> > I heard a report on local radio the other day that police in the West
> > Midlands are asking for people to inform on those that have several
> > mobile phones
>
> Don't be daft!

Don't forget, it's the west mids police who arrested a poor chap at
gunpoint because some muppet thought his MP3 player "might have been a
gun".

The scariest thing was, because he was listening to his music (OK it
must have been a bit loud), he didn't hear their order to stop at
first. And when he saw them, what's the first thing he did ? Yup -
you've got it. He put his hand inside his jacket to switch it off ...

So it's not daft. This ludicrous climate of fear the Government is
trying to get us to buy into (no one I know is remotely scared of
terrorists. They *are* scared of the government) is going to get more
innocent people killed.