Wednesday September 29, 2004 You with the cell phone! Freeze! Put your hands behind your head!
This is pretty nuts. A woman in Washington D.C. was arrested yesterday for talking too loudly on her cell phone. (Oh, by the way, she is also pregnant). "Freeze! Drop that cell phone! You're under arrest!" See: See. If she were using IM or SMS text messaging via a simple J2ME MIDlet instead of talking on her J2ME technology-enabled phone, this would never have happened. ;-)
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Posted by rama on September 29, 2004 at 12:54 PM PDT #
I agree. The nuts part is that for some reason two people arguing with each other is very common on city streets and those hundreds of people everyday are not arrested for that. But, put one person on the other end of a cell phone call and for some reason the person on one end of the cell phone stands out and people notice that more than when both parties are present.
I think it's strange that there's a double-standard for disturbing the peace: one volume setting for 2 people talking and another volume setting for 1 person talking.
The volume setting should be the same for both cases and when that volume maximum threshold is crossed whether 2 people in a conversation or 1 person on a cell phone the law should be equally enforced. Was it equally enforce in this case? I'm not sure from the news article. But, I bet it was not since many people enforce that double-standard.
Just my 2 cents :-)
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on September 29, 2004 at 01:10 PM PDT #
Posted by Unknown on September 29, 2004 at 01:42 PM PDT #
If she had used a simple J2ME instant messaging MIDlet instead of talking on her cell phone, this would never have happened. ;-)
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on September 29, 2004 at 02:07 PM PDT #