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You realize a payphone allows 911 calls for free.


You know what would be a great policy? Not sending SWAT teams when the call reporting whatever situation is coming from a phone physically on the other side of the state.


I don't know about you but I haven't seen a payphone in at least a decade.


I recently saw one in a state park. It didn't have a dial tone.


a pay phone has a location. You can look at cameras around that. They also barley exist anymore


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Pay phones still exist in places across the USA.


Lol. I am one of those who still remembers a dime. Paperboxes. Magazines. Smoking in supermarkets, doctor offices, etc.

When smoking move out of bars most bars seemed to close.


> When smoking move out of bars most bars seemed to close.

Pretty good outcome, IMO. If you can't make money without giving all your customers cancer, even if they don't smoke... maybe you shouldn't be in business.


I don't know one bar that closed because of the smoking bans. not one.




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