Posted on 02/18/2022 11:35:35 AM PST by Red Badger
Every parent has been there – your kid gets a tablet or phone for the holidays, and all of a sudden you can’t pry their eyes away from it. Most parents try parental blocks or limiting their screen time, encouraging them to have fun with the family instead. Pretty much anything other than using a multi-wave band jammer that completely shuts down your entire town’s internet connection.
But that’s exactly what one man did in Messanges, France, after using an illegal signal jammer to deter his child from the screen, but simultaneously nuking the internet connection of residents in a huge radius around him. He now faces a €30,000 fine and up to 6 months in jail for the blunder.
The reports came after a mysterious internet outage kept occurring between the specific hours of midnight and 3 am every night. A telephone operator received the call and sent a technician to investigate, equipped with a laboratory vehicle with a detection device that can isolate waves causing a disturbance. Unbeknownst to the father, who was surely sleeping tight knowing his child was offline, the source of the jamming was a device he had set up.
When questioned, the father admitted to using a multi-wave band jammer to deprive his kid of internet connectivity as they were "addicted" to social media. However, these jammers often have a much larger area of effect than you may expect, and it was actually affecting an area encompassing two municipalities, reports local media outlet France Bleu. They are also illegal to use in France, for obvious reasons.
The man is now under investigation and will be liable to pay for the work the National Frequency Agency carried out, alongside any criminal prosecutions put to him. Pretty tough punishment for a little too much TikTok.
Ping!................
For the record this was NOT Florida man....thank you
It would be fun to activate a jammer near biden during a press conference
Sounds like a good dad. May need a givesendgo to pay that kind of fine.
Well, it was French. Jacksonville area was originally settled by the French.................Till the Spanish massacred them.........
Ugh. Please
Just take away the computer/iPad/phone
How do people expect to defend the country when they can’t see controlling their own homes their kids’ activities and possessions/stuff
Wimp
When questioned, the father admitted to using a multi-wave band jammer to deprive his kid of internet connectivity as they were “addicted” to social media.
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He could have set the privacy or parental controls on the device; instead he went nuclear and bought an illegal jammer.
Either he’s incredibly dumb and can’t google something like “parental controls” -or- he’s using this as an excuse for deploying the jammer.
And that is how easy it is. Got a neighbor that runs his stereo too loud? Directional arc transmitter will take care of that. lol
Or you could take away the kids phones at night. Its cheaper, just saying...
Or… man up and take the device from your child at night. Better than this passive/aggressive weak crap that he did.
Nice try bro. LoL!
He typed “Google” into Google.
Guess no Christmas or birthday presents for the kid; well into his 50’s ....
Never do that! LOL!
cause just taking the toy away was out of the question...
Reminds me of when a neighbor cut down a tree and it fell on the neighborhood-serving cable tv cable during the super bowl. There were some unhappy neighbors.
yea but I heard he's moving there....lol
Don’t understand the penguin thing, yet, I’m strangely attracted to it........
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