articles on decline of pay phones [telecom]
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Posted by on August 12, 2009, 5:16 pm
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decline in pay phones. They offer some counts of phones in service and removed: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/nj_cuts_back_on_pay_phones_as.html http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2009/08/hanging_up_the_pay_phone.html I wonder if some larger property owners don't realize they're paying the phoneco to provide pay phones for their property; perhaps more phones than they need. The following article describes some crime victims who couldn't call for help. (I thought there was a law that if someone asks you to call 911 for an emergency, you were required to do so.) http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2009/07/robbed_in_montclair_looking_th.html | ||||||||||
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Posted by wdag on August 12, 2009, 8:05 pm
Please log in for more thread options  attendant(s) to "call 911", it says they asked to _use their phone_ i.e. either come behind the bulletproof partition - where the attendant can be more easily robbed - or (more likely) be handed the attendant's cellphone - and disappear with it. Any law requiring someone to make themselves a potential crime victim is unenforceable. [Moderator snip] | ||||||||||
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Posted by on August 13, 2009, 11:18 am
Please log in for more thread options Sorry to nitpick, but yes, the story did say the man asked the clerks to call the police and they refused that request too. I could certainly understand the reluctance of a store clerk to allow someone in the booth or behind the counter. Indeed, such store clerks (eg late night gas station, convenience store) suffer a high rate of occupational death because of holdups. But if someone comes in and asks the clerk to call 911 for them; I think the clerks ought to do that, and may even be required to (somewhere I read that). I don't know the neighborhood where the incident took place, but in some areas the store clerks have very little interaction with the public other than taking money for a purchase. They offer no help in making in a purchase (don't ask them if they carry a particular soda or candy bar); and there may be a language barrier as well. I personally do not like dealing with stores that have such clerks; even in a safer neighborhood without the partitians they can be rather rude. | ||||||||||
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> (I thought there was a law that if someone asks you to call
> 911 for an emergency, you were required to do so.)