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    Blind Phone 'Swatter' Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking
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    Image of mrpedenman mrpedenman
    06/30/09

    In reply to Blind Phone 'Swatter' Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking
    haha yeah this kid lives a few blocks from me in Revere, MA
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/30/09

    @mrpedenman: And you did nothing to stop him. Jerkface.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/30/09

    In reply to Blind Phone 'Swatter' Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking
    Don't people believe in the simple joy of harmless phone pranks anymore? I used to have fun going through the huge list of numbers on the Petland directory when I used to work in a petshop on a slow Sunday. At least none of these people were charged with saving the lives of others, unless you count selling cat and dog vitamins, and fish fungal cures something of supreme importance. Fuck this guy; let the little bastard rot longer than a decade, I say.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/30/09

    In reply to Blind Phone 'Swatter' Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking
    oh, and i have been reading about this kid for a while. this isn't his first run in with da raw and not his first time sending swat to someone's house.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/30/09

    In reply to Blind Phone 'Swatter' Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking
    I like that the blind hacker went along to harass the Verizon investigator. If there's one thing scarier than a computer nerd, it's a blind computer nerd.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE
    07/01/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I have no clue how they found me. I wore a disguise. I had fake glasses on and a mustache.


    The investigator IDed your dog.


    D'oh!

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    Image of Curves Curves
    06/30/09

    In reply to Blind Phone 'Swatter' Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking
    What exactly do you have to do to make someone mad enough at you to call SWAT.


    Those pen stealing bastards at work are in for it now.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/30/09

    In reply to Blind Phone 'Swatter' Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking
    i once pulse dialed from a courtesy phone at the airport with no keypad to call my parents. all the other kids waited in a long line at a payphone to call collect and i figured i would save my parents a couple bucks. the chaperones didn't think it was a good idea, but i saw those 20/20 shows on collect calling scams.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/30/09

    @Nick:


    smooth. i once blueboxed a payphone just to see if i could. it worked, way back in 1999, but in 2002 i tried it again and no dice. i think they've altered the way it all works, so that playing tones into the receiver is an exercise in futility.

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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/30/09

    @nutbastard: yeah, phone phreakin' used to be innocent fun. kids these days and their violent video games.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    06/30/09

    In reply to Blind Phone 'Swatter' Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking
    Huh, add that term to the list of shit I never knew existed and now that I do I don't understand why.
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    06/30/09

    @tande04:


    seconded. i had no idea, never imagined, that this was on anyones list of goals.

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    Image of nukee nukee
    06/30/09

    In reply to Blind Phone 'Swatter' Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking
    Good. Fucking idiot.
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    Image of Mr_Biggles:Windows 7 was my idea Mr_Biggles:Windows 7 was my idea
    06/30/09

    @nukee: Wasting time and money of 911 services is a big no no what if someone was really be kidnapped.
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    Image of JoshuaTerrell JoshuaTerrell
    06/30/09

    @Mr Biggles_A Pirate against the tides: Thirded. This is retarded.
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    Image of facepuncher facepuncher
    06/30/09

    @JoshuaTerrell: fourthed. assholes like this don't belong in society
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    Image of ZaxxonQ.com ZaxxonQ.com
    06/30/09

    @facepuncher: Fifthed! Scum like this should have their balls ripped off, shoved down their mouths, and then set on fire! >_<

    ....

    ......

    ........

    ..........too far? :-|
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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    06/30/09

    In reply to Blind Phone 'Swatter' Gets 11 Years For 911 Phone Hacking
    Hello, NYC SWAT? Yeah my boss is attempting to lay me off. How fast can you be here?
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/30/09

    @N@tedog: i'm sorry, but the number you dialed is disconnected. we've been downsized.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/30/09

    @N@tedog: Please Hold.
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