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Re: DA Wants to Restrict Pre-Paid Cell Phones

mc (look@www.ai.uga.edu.for.address)
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 00:34:09 -0500

Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net> wrote in message
news:telecom26.28.6@telecom-digest.org:

> On 24 Jan 2007 11:56:30 -0800
> hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

>> "To get a prepaid phone, all you have to do is plunk down your cash
>> and walk out of the store -- no paperwork necessary. Castor says
>> that's a problem for his detectives because they can't track down the
>> owner of the phone."

> Yea, that's a bitch. Cars are also a problem, why with a car someone
> can commit a crime and be miles away in very little time. I think they
> should ban everything that can possibly be used in any criminal
> activity!

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: One notable difference however is that
> while cars _are_ frequently used to commit crimes, the car has to be
> in close proximity to the crime scene, and theoretically at least, the
> car is easily traceable from its license plate...

It is no coincidence that detectives were invented around the same time as
railroads.

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