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Bell Trashing
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By: The Dragyn
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The Police Station
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612-934-4880
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The Phone Co. will go to extreams on occasions. In fact, unless you really
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know what to expect from them, they will suprise the heck out of you with their
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"unpublished tarriffs". Recently, a situation was brought to my attention that
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up till then I had been totaly unaware of, least to mention, had any concern
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about. It involved gar- bage! The phone co. will go as far as to prosecute
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anyone who rumages through their garbage and helps himself to some.
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Of course, they have their reasons for this, and no doubt benefit from such
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action. But, why should they be so picky about garbage? The answer soon
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became clear to me: those huge metal bins are filled up with more than waste
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old food and refuse... Although it is Pacific Tele. policy to recycle paper
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waste pro ducts, sometimes employees do overlook this sacred operation when sor
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ting the garbage. Thus top-secret confidential Phone Co. records go to the
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garbage bins instead of the paper shredders. Since it is constantly being
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updated with "company memorandums, and supplied with extensive reference
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material, the Phone co. must continualy dispose of the outdated materials.
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Some phone companies are supplied each year with the complete "System
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Practices" guide. This publication is an over 40 foot long library of
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reference material about everything to do with telephones. As the new edition
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arrives each year, the old version of "System Practices" must also be thrown
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out.
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I very quickly figured out where some local phone phreaks were getting their
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material. They crawl into the garbage bins and remove selected items that are
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of particular i nterest to them and their fellow phreaks. One phone phreak in
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the Los Angeles area has salvaged the complete 1972 edition of "Bell System
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Practices". It is so large and was out of order (the binders had been removed)
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that it took him over a year to sort it out and create enough shelving for it
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in his garage.
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Much of this "Top Secret" information is so secret that most phone companies
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have no idea what is in their files. They have their hands full simply
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replacing everything each time a change in wording requires a new revision. It
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seems they waste more paper than they can read!
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It took quite a while for Hollywood Cal traffic manager to figure out how all
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of the local phone phreaks constantly discovered the switchroom test numbers.
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Whenever someone wanted to use the testboard, they found the local phone
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phreaks on the lines talking to all points all over the world. It got to the
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point where the local garbage buffs knew more about the office operations than
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the employees themselves. One phreak went so far as to call in and tell a
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switchman what his next daily assignment would be. This, however, proved to be
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too much. The switchman traced the call and one phone phreak was denied the
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tool of his trade.
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In another rather humorous incident, a fellow phreak was rumaging through the
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trash bin when he heard someone approaching. He pressed up against the side of
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the bin and silently waited for the goodies to come. You can imagine his
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surprise when the garbage from the lunchroom landed on his head. Most people
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find evenings best for checking out their local telco trash piles. The only
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thing necessary is a flashlight and, in the case mentioned above, possibly a
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rain coat. A word of warning though, before you rush out and dive into the
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trash heap. It is probably illegal, but no matter where you live, you
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certainly won't get the local policeman to hold your flashlight for you.
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