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echo: scanners
to: BILL FUNK
from: BOBBIE BEERS
date: 1996-12-21 14:40:00
subject: RE: HAPPENINGS

 -=> Quoting Bill Funk to Bobbie Beers <=-
 BF> While the law does forbid us to divulge what we hear, the law seems
 BF> to be being interpreted to mean that there's no sense in prosecuting
 BF> unless: a) Someone actually uses the infoo to harm someone, or
 BF> b) Someone uses the infor heard to profit from it.
 BF> So, since TV news departments, scanner pager nets, etc., do divulge
 BF> the info, no one is harmed, and no one uses the info to make money.
 BF> So, there's no prosecution.
 BF> However, as I understand it, it's still illegal.
Now I am not sure of the profit angle there, Bill. 
 BF> In many areas, it's illegal to drive an automobile without a person
 BF> in front waving a red flag. They don't prosecute that, either. ;-)
You've seen me driving down the street??????!!!!!! *8^)
Bobbie
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