Comment Re:Is this law really needed? (Score 2, Insightful) 666
Companies have come up with solutions that I use quite often. Ask your phone company about Selective Call Acceptance/Rejection. During family dinners or game nights I turn on Selective Call Acceptance and the only people that can reach me are the 4 that I've programmed into my phone system.
I use it mostly for annoyance reasons because I just do not get crank called very often I think that happens to pizza delivery places more than residential phones.
I think the main difference here is you also have to take into account that the person calling the other person a joke is doing it in a public forum and not just in a private phone call.
This is one of those laws that just makes you check yourself before you say or post (in this case) something ignorant. I do not know of anyone serving actual jail time for crank calling a pepperoni pizza to their catholic neighbors on Lent so I can only assume it would be something you could use in court to add fuel to the fire or possibly get someone's wrist slapped.
I use it mostly for annoyance reasons because I just do not get crank called very often I think that happens to pizza delivery places more than residential phones.
I think the main difference here is you also have to take into account that the person calling the other person a joke is doing it in a public forum and not just in a private phone call.
This is one of those laws that just makes you check yourself before you say or post (in this case) something ignorant. I do not know of anyone serving actual jail time for crank calling a pepperoni pizza to their catholic neighbors on Lent so I can only assume it would be something you could use in court to add fuel to the fire or possibly get someone's wrist slapped.
