[geeks] More on cell phones, etc.

[wa2egp at att.net]

> Back when we lived in the U.S. and cell phones were still rare, all
> three of us had ham licenses and used to communicate via handi-talkies
> (hand held radios).
> 
> My son who was in seventh grade at the time, started getting attacked
> on his five minute walk home by a bully. Since it was out of sight of
> the school, they refused to do anything about it. My son brought his
> HT to to school and talked to us on the way home for a few days and
> the bully left him alone.
> 
> The Philly school system had a policy of suspending or expelling students
> for carrying a "portable communications device" in school because high
> school students where using beepers and cell phones run drug deals.
> 
> I told my son to leave his pencils home as they fit the description. :-)
> 
> When he had to bring the HT, I told him to take it to the dean of students,
> show it to him and his license and explain that he would not turn it
> on in the school and that it was an "overriding Federal license".
> 
> He let my son keep it.
> 
> Geoff.
Kick ass.....