• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    1 month ago

    I’ve broken plenty of phones back in the day from slamming the handset down on the cradle. What do you do if you break a public pay phone? I mean, besides run away?

    • FiveMacs
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      141 month ago

      Why run from the broken public? Not like they ever knew

    • @[email protected]
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      91 month ago

      break a public pay phone

      At the zenith of that technology, the phone company(ies) had already battle tested countless other designs. The newest relics you find are hardened enough to be left unattended in the most vandalism prone areas imaginable. Each one, a little fortress perfectly protecting delicate electronics and a coin-box. Slam it all you want: they’re nigh-on indestructible.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        The only non-functioning payphones I ever saw were the ones where the handset had been sawn off.