# Turn off your cell phones, you uncultured hicks!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-cell-phones-you-uncultured-hicks/37707>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 20, 2000, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-cell-phones-you-uncultured-hicks/37707 "2000-10-20T20:36:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 24, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-cell-phones-you-uncultured-hicks/37707/41 "2000-10-24T17:49:55Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Guinastasia \*  
> \*\*A fellow mod at customers suck has problems with cell phone users, as she works in a hospital, where cell phones MUST BE TURNED OFF AT ALL TIMES. Why? They interfer with the emergency equipment…but people always sneak them on.  
> \*\*

I’ll back this one up. We killed one of the machines at my work by transmitting over a site radio next to it (this was our first time to have the problem; other departments have dealt with it for decades.)  
The concept’s the same, only the frequency is different.

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