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Miscellaneous See other Miscellaneous Articles Title: Woman fined for blowing whistle into phone A 61-year-old German woman has been fined €800 for blowing a whistle down the telephone at a call-centre worker and damaging her hearing - after she got fed up with constant cold-calls to her house. The unnamed woman from Pirmasens in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate told a judge in a local court that she was so annoyed by the unending stream of calls from marketing companies last August that she snapped and blew a whistle into the receiver. She was hoping just to deter the company from calling her again, but ended up giving herself a criminal record - and the female call-centre employee long-term hearing problems and tinnitus due to the effort she put into the high-pitched blast. Finding her guilty of bodily harm, the judge fined the 61-year-old €800. She initially appealed the fine but decided to pay it shortly before a hearing scheduled for Tuesday. DPA/The Local/jcw Poster Comment: I found one method which causes no harm to anyone has has definitely cut down on the # of unsolicited calls I receive- I speak only English and tell them I do not speak German... They usually then ask if my husband speaks German, I say no and they thank me and hang-up... I'd have to say, since I started doing this, I've seen a reduction from 1-2 calls per day to 1-2 per week... starsh3ro i always redirect calls like this to an expensive service number DarkScribe The whole issue is a scam on the part of the caller. It is impossible for a phone headset to damage hearing. They can reproduce a frequency, but not in sufficient volume to damage hearing. If you fired a pistol next to a telephone microphone while someone was listening at the other end, they would just hear a deep thump, but not at a volume sufficient to even make them jump. Telephones have very little power with regard to output levels. (You need a powerful amplifier to make loud sounds.) They also have a shunt across the line to prevent spikes from things like lightning strikes. The Judge/Magistrate had no idea about the technology involved. Johnne Yeaaah right..typical of the german justice system. The victim is always the offender/guilty one while the offender turns the victim because he/she filed for complaint first. y gkh50 @rfwilson Sadly its not the judge (which I have not much respect for German judges who can, if possible, become one at 28yrs old) but the stupid defense lawyer . From my experience, German lawyers are more like secretaries and if you do not instruct them exactly what to do. Then you lose. German justice system is well, upside down. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
I'd agree, unless German phones have a volume control on the sending side.
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