Ridiculous.

When I first hired on with the railroad in 2008, I didn’t have a cellular phone yet in life, and lots of the old heads there didn’t either. Some of those guys had “beepers”…also called a pager. They’d get paged wherever they were in town in their off time and have to go find a public pay phone and call in collect to the crew caller at work and take their call to get on a train.

That’s been 20+ years ago however….I don’t know of anybody else these days in the U.S. that would use a beeper…EVERYBODY….and I mean EVERYBODY, except my 102 year old grandmother has a cell phone, whether a flip or not.

So….no need for a beeper anymore.

All I know is I’m glad the Mossad isn’t after me. That bunch is just plain scary.

Electronic devices.
Would never be used as a weapon.....
Or fer servailance...
What a bunch of conspirecy theoryists...

I remember when Dave had a pager. He said he had an electronic leash that wouldn't let him be. I remember "beeps" during the middle of the night, on weekends and even on holidays. He was so glad when he retired and didn't have that tether any more.

Very creative.

Sure hope cell phones don't have this ability.

Latest report I’ve read now says 4000 injured with 11 deaths. That is some scary stuff like Bill pointed out. Budder do you remember when there was a problem with cellphone batteries over heating? A few folks were injured when that happened. Test run?

This was not hacked batteries but rather previously implanted explosive devices. Whether or not the lithium in our phones could be weaponized is not addressed by this incident, but it sure gave a lot of folks food for thought today.

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Electronic devices.
Would never be used as a weapon.....
Or fer servailance...
What a bunch of conspirecy theoryists...

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My latest vaccine chip gives me immunity.

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This was not hacked batteries but rather previously implanted explosive devices. Whether or not the lithium in our phones could be weaponized is not addressed by this incident, but it sure gave a lot of folks food for thought today.

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The explosive used in the pagers was PETN, something that I used a lot as a combat engineer in Viet Nam.  It was used in some of our explosive devices, but we used it mostly to link together other explosive devices rather than having to put a fuse and blasting cap to what we were going to detonate.  The attached photo shows what looks like white clothes line tied to different explosives.  That is PETN cord (we called it Det cord) ...... very effective and powerful.  You can see the Det cord attached to two shaped charges on top of our ammo bunker in the left photo.  The right photo is of some mortar rounds that we had not yet connected to the Det cord.

When I was 20 I worked as a fiberoptic installer for a telecom company. They required us to carry pagers. They would randomly page us to make sure we were always carrying it. Their rule was if we missed 3 pages within in a 6 month period we were canned. They sent us to remote cites with no cell phones with no land lines within 10 minutes (they gave us 10 mins)

The 7th or 8th time they paged me at 3am just to test me, I blew that pager up with b blasting powder and shot it with a 45. I mailed them the keys to the company car which I parked at an airport, flew home and refuse to get within a mile of a pager. Good thing huh?

I am not sure what was used..
Might it have been sentex..?

Petn..would do it too..

Now walkie-talkies are blowing up and home solar systems Lordy this is getting real real fast.

https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/18/blasts-heard-lebanon-day-pager-attack-left-3-000-injured-21629003/?ico=trending-post-strip_item_4

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Now walkie-talkies are blowing up and home solar systems Lordy this is getting real real fast.

 

https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/18/blasts-heard-lebanon-day-pager-attack-left-3-000-injured-21629003/?ico=trending-post-strip_item_4

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Netanyahu likes Lebanon/Hezbollah as much as he likes Gaza/Hamas.

I knew a record producer in the 70s who required his "A list" musicians to have a pager and arrive at the studio within a half hour of a page, any time day or night regardless of what they may be doing at the time, if they wished to remain on the "A list." They grumbled but complied as they all needed the work, and he provided lots of work.

I thought about getting one... Not now.

I don't have a pager or a walkie talkie,but the biggest thing I don't have is anyone wishing me to die.

The explosive may have come from drone ammo.

I hope our adversaries don’t get any ideas but it’s probably to late for that. Makes the push for American made products even harder or I should say more of a demand .

In my early days in the telco it seemed like a status emblem. Anyone with a pager could be someone unlike the normal drone who is under constant supervision and never required for anything special. When I finally got one I realized it for what it was. A ring in my nose that was easy to grab. Eventually I got one of the early cell phones which looked liked the GI hand held radio. It was called a 'brick' because it weighed a lot an took up a lot of room. One day on skid row my vehicle was broken into. One of the items stolen was my working pager. By that time the pagers had died a natural death. Nobody ever asked me to give back my missing pager.

The new use of pagers and walkie talkies is to have a more secure way of communicating.

And with the pagers we had to find a pay phone! I have been in telecom for 30+ years my old company gave us a Sprint FON card and we had to memorize the code and not pull it out in public because our Veep at the time used his at an airport and someone saw the number and used it to make a bunch of overseas calls. I can't remember the last time I saw a pay phone except in a movie. But we always used the FON card so we didn't have to put change in the pay phones.

Somewhere along the way people started adding "-911" to the end of a page to indicate the urgency. It truly got to be a case of crying wolf however. We had a manager working a job at a chemical plant who paged one of the customer personnel using that suffix. He happened to be in a dentist chair at the time, jumped out and went back to work only to find out it was less than a 911 emergency. That man had never gotten a page like that before and he was quite unhappy to say the least.

So I saw that story about Hezbollah and my first thought was "who still uses pagers???"

Iirc, some time back, once, or maybe twice, we've had a pager foisted on us by a restaurant.  Do restaurants still use them?

One thing that is going to make this episode so effective is that is will have the Iranian military and big wigs very hesitant in their future communications. Blowing up the Hamas leader in Tehran a few months ago while he was at his desk pretty much shows the Israelis are capable of getting just about anyone anywhere.

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One thing that is going to make this episode so effective is that is will have the Iranian military and big wigs very hesitant in their future communications. Blowing up the Hamas leader in Tehran a few months ago while he was at his desk pretty much shows the Israelis are capable of getting just about anyone anywhere.

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Any militarized country can get to almost anyone anywhere if they are stripped of the responsibility of following international law. It's not an amazing skillset they have, it's a lack of accountability. 

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I hope our adversaries don’t get any ideas but it’s probably to late for that. Makes the push for American made products even harder or I should say more of a demand .

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There really isn't a need to put explosives in our devices, they can effectively shut down our power grid already and just watch the chaos unfold while using X and TikTok to convince everyone that it's their neighbor that did it. 
 

The Hangout is so far off the beaten path that it might be the only normal place left after a while :)

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One thing that is going to make this episode so effective is that is will have the Iranian military and big wigs very hesitant in their future communications. Blowing up the Hamas leader in Tehran a few months ago while he was at his desk pretty much shows the Israelis are capable of getting just about anyone anywhere.

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Any militarized country can get to almost anyone anywhere if they are stripped of the responsibility of following international law. It's not an amazing skillset they have, it's a lack of accountability. 

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Any militarized country engaged in a war can be accused of war crimes and violation of international law.  The Israelis do have an amazing skill set, whether this is a demonstration of it or not.  I think it is, you obviously do not.