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Edited transcript from an IRC channel I frequent...
<Suzuran> Well, looks like the cops are coming over for a visit
<Lulolwen> Suzuran: O_O
<Lulolwen> Everything cool?
<Suzuran> Yeah, it's funny really
<Suzuran> The neighbor behind me diagonally is throwing a fit about my radio antenna and says I need to take it down because it's "jamming his internet"
<Vashmata> lol
<Suzuran> I told him that's not possible, I have a license for it, and his stuff all says it must accept interference anyway.
<Suzuran> He told me he's calling the cops
<Suzuran> I asked him what he means by jamming
<Suzuran> He says his internet is jammed and needs a password
<Vashmata> :|
<Suzuran> Turns out he's stealing wifi from next door and they got wise to it and put a password on it.
<Lulolwen> HAH!
<Vashmata> lol
<Suzuran> He thinks I'm jamming it because he noticed the antenna (which has been up for about two months now)
<yume_no_hikari> so basically the cops are going to have a laugh.
<Suzuran> That or arrest him for threatening to come over and cut my antenna down
<DarkoNeko> well, they could arrest him also for "pirating" the neighbour's wifi
<DarkoNeko> he's a mad haxxorer
<pirokoro> Suzuran: thats a hoot. how dare you block his internets
<DarkoNeko> I hope you pointed that if anything, in case of jamming it wouldn't ask for a password but not connect at all ^^;
<Suzuran> It's amazing how many people don't read or don't care about that Part 15 waiver
<DarkoNeko> for starter he could read the wikipedia article about jamming
<Suzuran> I have a license, I can radiate anything I wish within the terms of my license, and you can pound sand.
<Suzuran> The fact that you have a shitty chinese device does not entitle you to spectral assets
<DarkoNeko> Suzuran, it still has nothing to do with the neibhgour's wifi asking a password
<Suzuran> Yeah
* DarkoNeko will stay with the basics
<yume_no_hikari> iirc it's legal in most jurisdictions to use open wifi, even if it's not yours.
<Suzuran> That's up in ISM anyway, I'd love to know how to jam ISM from HF (outside of front-end overload, which ain't happening at 100 watts)
<pirokoro> he's using Makes Sense to Me logic
<Lulolwen> Suzuran: You should get a 2.4GHz wireless phone handset and just leave it outside your neighbor's house
<pirokoro> internets stop working
<pirokoro> sees antenna outside on your proerty thats somewhat new
<Lulolwen> (and hope he doesn't have 5GHz wireless)
<pirokoro> that must be the problem
<Suzuran> Lulolwen: Naah, if I really wanted to jam him, I have a spare microwave magnetron. I'd just radiate a random CW signal toward his house at low power, it would wipe out everything within a few hundred MHz of 2.5 GHz
<DarkoNeko> *evil*
<Suzuran> Not evil at all
<Suzuran> Evil would be running it at rated power
<yume_no_hikari> Suzuran: and the horrible part is, it's *still* legal, isn't it?
<DarkoNeko> uuh
<Suzuran> yume_no_hikari: Absolutely not.
<Lulolwen> Heh.
<yume_no_hikari> oh. fuck.
<Suzuran> yume_no_hikari: Intentional jamming is never legal, transmitting without ID is never legal.
<DarkoNeko> Suzuran, below a certian distance it is, for the id thing
<Suzuran> yume_no_hikari: That said, I do have a primary allocation between 2.3-2.4 GHz, so I could put a beacon there and it would have the same effect
<DarkoNeko> granted it's a fairly short distnace
<Suzuran> DarkoNeko: No, it's below a certain power, certain antenna size, and in certain frequency ranges
<Suzuran> Hang on, door
<pirokoro> thats the dumb thing. you rawr over your neighbor about stuff you dont know... but whats worse is that your neigbor probably knows enough about it to actually do worse if he chose to
<DarkoNeko> oh, so there IS a limitation for the ferequencies too. At least in USA, anyway
* yume_no_hikari waits for the story -- this ought to be good.
<Lulolwen> "Hang on, door"
<Lulolwen> Welp
<DarkoNeko> it's fairly possible the cops already laughed at his face when he explained the issue to them, and you then wouldn't have a visit
...
<Suzuran> OK, now the cops are getting called. He sent his girlfriend over to "take a picture" of my license with her cellphone. I guess they thought I was lying about having one. So I showed her my wallet card license (there's a wallet card version of the license, the real license is a large postcard sized thing) she tried to grab it and run away. When I grabbed her arm and took it back, she tried to
<Suzuran> hit me with her purse.
<Lulolwen> *What the fuck*
<yume_no_hikari> harassment, assault, attempted theft...
<Vashmata> you're surprised?
<Suzuran> No, not really
<Vashmata> I was askig lulo
<Lulolwen> I am...
<Vashmata> Ii've heard your stories, suzu
<pirokoro> you have effed up neighbors
<Lulolwen> Yeah, best kind of neighbors are the ones you never meet
* Lulolwen both has and is that kind of neighbor
<Vashmata> hahaha
<Vashmata> I bet
...
<TheSHAD0W> Suzuran: Stupid suggestion, before your idiot neighbors cause even more trouble... Unhook the coax from your antenna, point it out to them and ask if their internet is unjammed.
<TheSHAD0W> They'll still be idiots, but at least they won't be trying to take down your antenna.
<Suzuran> Door again, and it's too fast to be the cops.
<Suzuran> BRB.
<DarkMorford> Ooh, sounds like a good story. What'd I miss?
<pirokoro> well, lets hope suzuran makes it back ^^;;
<Vashmata> seriously
* pirokoro nods
<Vashmata> I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't called the cops at all
<DarkoNeko> oh, they probably did but got laught at
<Vashmata> around this point I'd be calling the cops on /them/
<Suzuran> Well now
<TheSHAD0W> Uh oh.
<Suzuran> That was the girlfriend again, she apologised and begged me to please not call the cops. (Too late, they already been called). I told her they already have been called and to get off the property.
<Vashmata> ha
<TheSHAD0W> How much would you like to bet one of the two has warrants?
<theshaggyfreak> having shitty neighbors sucks
<Suzuran> Oh, I didn't think of that!
<Vashmata> I'm so glad I live where I do
<Suzuran> And she RAN off too, I mean RAN.
<Suzuran> They don't have a car, they always use a taxi.
<Suzuran> Oh man, if she or he has a warrant, they're fucked.
<Suzuran> I am gonna laugh so hard
<DarkMorford> Suzuran: Sounds like a good story. What'd I miss?
<Suzuran> OH YES
<Suzuran> THE COPS ARE HERE AND IT'S SOMEONE I ACTUALLY KNOW
<Suzuran> BRB
<Lulolwen> Oh this is going to be hilarious.
<DarkoNeko> <TheSHAD0W> How much would you like to bet one of the two has warrants? < hah !
<TheSHAD0W> At least one of the two.
<yume_no_hikari> $10 says both.
<DarkoNeko> TheSHAD0W, I'd bet it's the male
...
<Suzuran> Sorry that took so long
<paarfi> all is good?
<Suzuran> TheSHAD0W: You called it, dude had a warrant for failure to appear. The girlfriend tried assaulting the cops when they were arresting him so she gets to go to jail too. I spent most of the time bullshitting with the cop, who I went to high school with and was a friend of mine I hadn't seen in many years (I didn't know he was a cop, he didn't know I was back in town)
<DarkMorford> HAHAHAHAHA
<paarfi> well, interesting
<pirokoro> oh boy
<pirokoro> hah
<Suzuran> So the whole radio thing turned out to be a non-issue
<yume_no_hikari> mmm, the lulz.
<theshaggyfreak> at least it sounds like a happy ending
<Suzuran> They're both going to jail and I don't want to bother with the paperwork so fuck it
<pirokoro> girlfriend sounds like a winner
<DarkMorford> Well, happy for Suzu. :P
<pirokoro> she attacked you, attacked the cops
<theshaggyfreak> yeah, don't help someone resist arrest
<pirokoro> wow
<theshaggyfreak> so smart
<yume_no_hikari> such dumb, many lulz.
<DarkMorford> wow
<Suzuran> I don't know where he planned to run to
<Suzuran> They don't have a car
<theshaggyfreak> run like the wind?
<Suzuran> They take taxis everywhere
<paarfi> that must get expensive
<DarkoNeko> was thinking that too
<Suzuran> I gather the state pays for it
<theshaggyfreak> taking a taxi around here is extremely expensive
<Vashmata> lol what a story
<DarkoNeko> I just hope that story won't end up with the asshole attempting revenge later.
<Suzuran> Naah
<Suzuran> If he gives me any shit, I have my friend's business card now, I can call him right over
<Suzuran> I guess he's been a cop here for two years now
<Suzuran> "I get to arrest all the assholes who picked on me in school, it's awesome"
<DarkoNeko> heh
<Lulolwen> That's a pretty choice quote.
<Suzuran> Very not serious of course
<DarkoNeko> for the revenge, i was more thinking of him doing desesperate stupid stuff liek trying to set your house on fire, or fire a gun;
<Suzuran> Well, if he does, shit happens
<DarkoNeko> ._.
<Suzuran> Oh yeah, so drugs
<Suzuran> The failure to appear thing?
<Suzuran> This idiot called the cops after his drug dealer robbed him
<Suzuran> He called the cops because his drug dealer sold him $20 worth of drugs for $50
<Suzuran> So of course the cops just arrested everyone involved for drugs
<Suzuran> And he skipped out
<Suzuran> So yeah, he's not very smart.
<Suzuran> Well, looks like the cops are coming over for a visit
<Lulolwen> Suzuran: O_O
<Lulolwen> Everything cool?
<Suzuran> Yeah, it's funny really
<Suzuran> The neighbor behind me diagonally is throwing a fit about my radio antenna and says I need to take it down because it's "jamming his internet"
<Vashmata> lol
<Suzuran> I told him that's not possible, I have a license for it, and his stuff all says it must accept interference anyway.
<Suzuran> He told me he's calling the cops
<Suzuran> I asked him what he means by jamming
<Suzuran> He says his internet is jammed and needs a password
<Vashmata> :|
<Suzuran> Turns out he's stealing wifi from next door and they got wise to it and put a password on it.
<Lulolwen> HAH!
<Vashmata> lol
<Suzuran> He thinks I'm jamming it because he noticed the antenna (which has been up for about two months now)
<yume_no_hikari> so basically the cops are going to have a laugh.
<Suzuran> That or arrest him for threatening to come over and cut my antenna down
<DarkoNeko> well, they could arrest him also for "pirating" the neighbour's wifi
<DarkoNeko> he's a mad haxxorer
<pirokoro> Suzuran: thats a hoot. how dare you block his internets
<DarkoNeko> I hope you pointed that if anything, in case of jamming it wouldn't ask for a password but not connect at all ^^;
<Suzuran> It's amazing how many people don't read or don't care about that Part 15 waiver
<DarkoNeko> for starter he could read the wikipedia article about jamming
<Suzuran> I have a license, I can radiate anything I wish within the terms of my license, and you can pound sand.
<Suzuran> The fact that you have a shitty chinese device does not entitle you to spectral assets
<DarkoNeko> Suzuran, it still has nothing to do with the neibhgour's wifi asking a password
<Suzuran> Yeah
* DarkoNeko will stay with the basics
<yume_no_hikari> iirc it's legal in most jurisdictions to use open wifi, even if it's not yours.
<Suzuran> That's up in ISM anyway, I'd love to know how to jam ISM from HF (outside of front-end overload, which ain't happening at 100 watts)
<pirokoro> he's using Makes Sense to Me logic
<Lulolwen> Suzuran: You should get a 2.4GHz wireless phone handset and just leave it outside your neighbor's house
<pirokoro> internets stop working
<pirokoro> sees antenna outside on your proerty thats somewhat new
<Lulolwen> (and hope he doesn't have 5GHz wireless)
<pirokoro> that must be the problem
<Suzuran> Lulolwen: Naah, if I really wanted to jam him, I have a spare microwave magnetron. I'd just radiate a random CW signal toward his house at low power, it would wipe out everything within a few hundred MHz of 2.5 GHz
<DarkoNeko> *evil*
<Suzuran> Not evil at all
<Suzuran> Evil would be running it at rated power
<yume_no_hikari> Suzuran: and the horrible part is, it's *still* legal, isn't it?
<DarkoNeko> uuh
<Suzuran> yume_no_hikari: Absolutely not.
<Lulolwen> Heh.
<yume_no_hikari> oh. fuck.
<Suzuran> yume_no_hikari: Intentional jamming is never legal, transmitting without ID is never legal.
<DarkoNeko> Suzuran, below a certian distance it is, for the id thing
<Suzuran> yume_no_hikari: That said, I do have a primary allocation between 2.3-2.4 GHz, so I could put a beacon there and it would have the same effect
<DarkoNeko> granted it's a fairly short distnace
<Suzuran> DarkoNeko: No, it's below a certain power, certain antenna size, and in certain frequency ranges
<Suzuran> Hang on, door
<pirokoro> thats the dumb thing. you rawr over your neighbor about stuff you dont know... but whats worse is that your neigbor probably knows enough about it to actually do worse if he chose to
<DarkoNeko> oh, so there IS a limitation for the ferequencies too. At least in USA, anyway
* yume_no_hikari waits for the story -- this ought to be good.
<Lulolwen> "Hang on, door"
<Lulolwen> Welp
<DarkoNeko> it's fairly possible the cops already laughed at his face when he explained the issue to them, and you then wouldn't have a visit
...
<Suzuran> OK, now the cops are getting called. He sent his girlfriend over to "take a picture" of my license with her cellphone. I guess they thought I was lying about having one. So I showed her my wallet card license (there's a wallet card version of the license, the real license is a large postcard sized thing) she tried to grab it and run away. When I grabbed her arm and took it back, she tried to
<Suzuran> hit me with her purse.
<Lulolwen> *What the fuck*
<yume_no_hikari> harassment, assault, attempted theft...
<Vashmata> you're surprised?
<Suzuran> No, not really
<Vashmata> I was askig lulo
<Lulolwen> I am...
<Vashmata> Ii've heard your stories, suzu
<pirokoro> you have effed up neighbors
<Lulolwen> Yeah, best kind of neighbors are the ones you never meet
* Lulolwen both has and is that kind of neighbor
<Vashmata> hahaha
<Vashmata> I bet
...
<TheSHAD0W> Suzuran: Stupid suggestion, before your idiot neighbors cause even more trouble... Unhook the coax from your antenna, point it out to them and ask if their internet is unjammed.
<TheSHAD0W> They'll still be idiots, but at least they won't be trying to take down your antenna.
<Suzuran> Door again, and it's too fast to be the cops.
<Suzuran> BRB.
<DarkMorford> Ooh, sounds like a good story. What'd I miss?
<pirokoro> well, lets hope suzuran makes it back ^^;;
<Vashmata> seriously
* pirokoro nods
<Vashmata> I wouldn't be surprised if they hadn't called the cops at all
<DarkoNeko> oh, they probably did but got laught at
<Vashmata> around this point I'd be calling the cops on /them/
<Suzuran> Well now
<TheSHAD0W> Uh oh.
<Suzuran> That was the girlfriend again, she apologised and begged me to please not call the cops. (Too late, they already been called). I told her they already have been called and to get off the property.
<Vashmata> ha
<TheSHAD0W> How much would you like to bet one of the two has warrants?
<theshaggyfreak> having shitty neighbors sucks
<Suzuran> Oh, I didn't think of that!
<Vashmata> I'm so glad I live where I do
<Suzuran> And she RAN off too, I mean RAN.
<Suzuran> They don't have a car, they always use a taxi.
<Suzuran> Oh man, if she or he has a warrant, they're fucked.
<Suzuran> I am gonna laugh so hard
<DarkMorford> Suzuran: Sounds like a good story. What'd I miss?
<Suzuran> OH YES
<Suzuran> THE COPS ARE HERE AND IT'S SOMEONE I ACTUALLY KNOW
<Suzuran> BRB
<Lulolwen> Oh this is going to be hilarious.
<DarkoNeko> <TheSHAD0W> How much would you like to bet one of the two has warrants? < hah !
<TheSHAD0W> At least one of the two.
<yume_no_hikari> $10 says both.
<DarkoNeko> TheSHAD0W, I'd bet it's the male
...
<Suzuran> Sorry that took so long
<paarfi> all is good?
<Suzuran> TheSHAD0W: You called it, dude had a warrant for failure to appear. The girlfriend tried assaulting the cops when they were arresting him so she gets to go to jail too. I spent most of the time bullshitting with the cop, who I went to high school with and was a friend of mine I hadn't seen in many years (I didn't know he was a cop, he didn't know I was back in town)
<DarkMorford> HAHAHAHAHA
<paarfi> well, interesting
<pirokoro> oh boy
<pirokoro> hah
<Suzuran> So the whole radio thing turned out to be a non-issue
<yume_no_hikari> mmm, the lulz.
<theshaggyfreak> at least it sounds like a happy ending
<Suzuran> They're both going to jail and I don't want to bother with the paperwork so fuck it
<pirokoro> girlfriend sounds like a winner
<DarkMorford> Well, happy for Suzu. :P
<pirokoro> she attacked you, attacked the cops
<theshaggyfreak> yeah, don't help someone resist arrest
<pirokoro> wow
<theshaggyfreak> so smart
<yume_no_hikari> such dumb, many lulz.
<DarkMorford> wow
<Suzuran> I don't know where he planned to run to
<Suzuran> They don't have a car
<theshaggyfreak> run like the wind?
<Suzuran> They take taxis everywhere
<paarfi> that must get expensive
<DarkoNeko> was thinking that too
<Suzuran> I gather the state pays for it
<theshaggyfreak> taking a taxi around here is extremely expensive
<Vashmata> lol what a story
<DarkoNeko> I just hope that story won't end up with the asshole attempting revenge later.
<Suzuran> Naah
<Suzuran> If he gives me any shit, I have my friend's business card now, I can call him right over
<Suzuran> I guess he's been a cop here for two years now
<Suzuran> "I get to arrest all the assholes who picked on me in school, it's awesome"
<DarkoNeko> heh
<Lulolwen> That's a pretty choice quote.
<Suzuran> Very not serious of course
<DarkoNeko> for the revenge, i was more thinking of him doing desesperate stupid stuff liek trying to set your house on fire, or fire a gun;
<Suzuran> Well, if he does, shit happens
<DarkoNeko> ._.
<Suzuran> Oh yeah, so drugs
<Suzuran> The failure to appear thing?
<Suzuran> This idiot called the cops after his drug dealer robbed him
<Suzuran> He called the cops because his drug dealer sold him $20 worth of drugs for $50
<Suzuran> So of course the cops just arrested everyone involved for drugs
<Suzuran> And he skipped out
<Suzuran> So yeah, he's not very smart.
That was awesome.
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