                    Trunking Off of 911

                        -*Written by The Conflict
                        -*Modified by Maxwell Smart
 
        We are not sure how useful this will be anyone, since
the majority of these users do not possess blue boxes.  Oh well,
c'est la vie, and on with the fun.  Essentially, the blue box
generates tones which are important to telephone companies.  The
most important tone being the 2600 Hz.  This is used for seizing
and giving up trunks.  Well, an interesting concept came up one
day when a few of the guys were screwing around at a local
fortress phone.  We decided to call 911 and blow a 2600.  The
results were very bizarre.  The effects of trunking a 911 can be
tremendously damaging!  See, the 2600 blew 911 off its assigned
trunk position.  Although we could not seize this for outdial,
we could play operator.  We played with the inwards for a
time...then we hung up and called back 911...a recording came up
saying that 911 was not available in this area and to call the
police/ambulance/firehouse...(like the one Richmond residents
get)...that was very funny since only minutes ago, the 911 was
functioning fine.  Well, we cruzed from this local and hit
another phone.  DTMF'd 911 and got the same recording.  It seems
that the area's 911 was disabled for nearly 3 days.  They
reassigned the trunk position I guess 2 days after, then they
had to resetup the equipment.
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