TAP No. 4 - Pay Phone Issue

@ @ © @ ) ® @ a> ©0806 It is important that we understand the basic fundamentals of the Pay Phone before attempting to abuse this noble species. Fig. 1 shows the standard, or "old" version. More plastic parts are used on this model, making the coin returns, for example, very attractive targets for cherry bombs. Note three slots for depositing money. A nickel, when dropped, produces a "ding", a dime makes a "ding-ding", and a quarter, you guessed it, makes a "gong". The sounds are heard both by you and the operator when they occur. Money deposited during a call on ‘his phone drops several seconds after you hang up, on a pulse by the operator, who can send it to you by coin return, or to them via the coin box. Fig. 2 shows the phone the Bell people designed to eliminate YIPL. (So they thought!) To prevent us from tape recording the dings and dongs, this model uses "beeps", and you can't even hear them. BUT, BELLY SUTTON Lock FoR COIN Box @ @ — @® YOuTH INTERNATIONAL ® © AY PHONE 19 SUE SEPTEMBER '7/ VOLUME 4# PARTY LINE it you call a friend and stick in money while you're talking, he will Thus, he can record them. ee Fig. 3 shows you how to directly record the tones from the phone at your friend's house. Using a micro- phone doesn't work well enough. Never play beeps into an old phone, or dings into a new one, because the operators know. Operators know the prefix (first three digits) of the phone you're on, and they know if you're at a pay phone. They know when to suspect something if you're not careful, and they sometimes put stakeouts on booths frequented by yippies.. Keep moving around. See issue #17. ee ee eee The polarity of the pulse the operator sends to drop coins determines where it will go. If the incoming wires of ‘a phone you know are exposed, you can reverse the crucial two and get money back each time she tries to collect it. There are only 4 wires, and the ones to reverse are usually’ black § yellow or black §& red. This only works till the collecting dude comes and finds the box empty. See issue #15. FIG.3 Se00 & VOLUME ConTeeL TRANSPO RM ER - LAFAYETIE*395 796 CI TOR - IMF 0,/ 100 vars CONTROL. ~ LAFAYEWE Ja aaSi0 abble "You can make a local 10 cent call for 2 cents by spitting on the pennies and dropping them in the nickel slot. As soon as they are about to hit the trig- ger mechanism, bang the coin-return button. Another way is to spin the pen- nies counter-clockwise into the nickel slot. Hold the penny in the slot with your finger and snap it spinning with a key or other flat object. Both sys- tems take a certain knack, but once you've perfected it, you'll always have it in your survival kit. If two cents is too much, how about a call for 1 penny? Cut a 1/4 strip off the telephone book cover. Insert the cardboard strip into the dime slot as far as it will go. Drop a penny in the nickel slot until it catches in the mechanism(spinning will help). Then slowly pull the strip out until you hear the dial tone. A number 14 brass washer with a small piece of scotch tape over one side of the hole will not only get a free call, but works in about any vending machine that takes dimes. You can get a box of thousands for about a dollar at any hardware store. You should always have a box around for phones, laundromats, parking meters and drink machines. Bend a bobby pin after removing the plastic from the tips and jab it down into the transmitter(mouthpiece). When it presses against the metal diaphragm, rub it on a metal wall or pipe to ground it. When you've made contact you hear the dial tone. Put a dime in the phone, dial the operator and tell her you have ten cents credit. She'll return your dime and get your call for free. If she asks why, say you made a call on ano- ther phone, lost the money, and the operator told you to switch phones and call the credit operator. This same method works for long distance calls. Call the operator and find out the rate for your call Hang up and call another operator telling her you just dialed San Francisco direct, got a wrong number and lost $.95 or whatever it is. She will get your call free of charge. Dear YIPL: Here's my request for a subscription to your monthly newsletter. I wrote to Abbie last week after reading his "Steal This Book’! I told him of a way to pick up loose change from the phone co. Immediately after someone has paid for a long distance call, you enter the booth and drop another dime or slug and call a number you know will be busy. You can call the next booth if there are two. Just leave the phone off the hook. If you are quick like a rabbit, and drop the dime be- fore the previous caller's money drops when you then hang up after a busy signal, you'll get your slug back and all the change the first guy dropped. Naturally you should then mail it to the phone company in order to stay honest. P.H.,Phoenixville, Pa. YIPL TIP-Another number that will be busy is the one you're on, so dial the one that's staring you in the face. Also, if you're the guy who was in first, it's even easier to put in a dime at the end of your call § get your bread back, 'cause you don't have to rush into the booth. You're already there! Hi-- | Yeah, put us on the list for phone f] info. Operators in this area are starting to ask credit card callers from phone booths the area code of the city in which the card is issued. In other words, say some varmit is calling on phony # 536-8445-007-H, the operator will want to know what city (007= Boston, right?) and it's area code (617)? Mad Funk Collective, Tucson. ——_=. NEWS [@ULLEDN : BELL-CWA TALKS ———___ ee ALAIN STALEMATED AS BELL COMPLAINS OF EQUIPTMENT SABOTAGE. FAR OUT! hoffman on pay phone justice... You can make a long distance call and charge it to a phone number. Simply tell the operator you want to bill the call to your home phone because you don't have the correct change. Tell her there is no one there now to verify the call, but you will be home in an hour and she can call you then if there is any Searle Make sure the exchange prefix)goes with the { sting area you say You can make all the free long distance calls you want by calling your party collect at a pay phone. Just have your friend go to a pre- arranged phone booth at a prearran- ged time. This can be done on the spot by having the friend call you person to person. Say you're not in, but ask for the number calling you since you'll be "back" in 5 minutes. Once you get the number, simply hang up, wait a moment and call back your friend collect. The call has to be out of the state to work, since operators are familiar with the special extension numbers assigned to pay phones for her area and possibly for nearby areas as well. If she asks you if it is a pay phone say no. If she finds out during the call{which rarely happens) and informs you of this, simply say you didn't expect the party to have a pay phone in his house and accept the charges. We have never heard of this happening though. If there are two pay phones next to each other, you can call long distance on one and put the coins in the other. When the operator cuts in and asks you to deposit money, drop the coins into the one you are not using, but hold the receiver up to the slots so the operator can hear the bells ring. When you've finished, you can simply press the return but- ton on the phone with the coins in it and out they come. If vou have a good tape recorder(cassete) you can record the sounds of a quarter, dime and nickel going into a pay phone and play them when the operator asks you for the money. Turn the volume up as loud as you can get. MONKEY WARFARE "If you like Halloween, you'll love monkey warfare. It's ideal for peo- ple uptight about guns, bombs and other children's toys, and allows for imaginative forms of protesting, many of which will become myth, hence dup- licated and enlarged upon. A syringe (minus the needle) can be filled with a dilute solution of epoxy glue. Get 42 St, State '71 Credit ys the two tubes in a hardware store and squeeze into a small bottle of rubbing alcohol. Shake real good and pour into the baster or syringe. YOU HAVE ABOUT 30 MINUTES BEFORE THE MIX- TURE GETS TOO HARD TO USE. Go after locks, parking meters, and telephones. ption of YIPL costs four " TAP Room 504, 152 W. A word about this. If someone has to make an emergency call, think of what pouring the shit down the coin slot would have done. A good way to use monkey warfare is to keep thinking, "How can I fuck the pigs, and help my sisters and brothers?" It then becomes obvious to glue the lock on the coin box, so they can't collect. And if you jam up the entrance to a parking meter slot, people can park there for free and have a ticket-saving excuse. IT SEEMS THAT PLACING stames | INCH LoweR ON AW ENVELCPE NEXT |SSUE: LETIERs, AVOIDS @ Post maRK. QoestiOMs ANSWERS, INTERVIEWS,AND MORE, Published for informational purposes only by the Technological American Party (TAP). ocality, costs $2.25 from TAR 2-Dialogue with Abbie Hoffman and Russel Baker, and The Blue Box Stor 3-The Telecommand,and a lot of assorted Card code, installing extensions free. shit. A year subscri dollars, N.Y.,N.Y. Steal This Book, if you can't get at Back issues still cost 50¢ each. issue number. 1- Conference call maker, your Meny thousends are refusing to pay the federal phone 12x that goes for war, For information: War Tax Resistance 390 Latayerte Street, New York City 10012 (212) 477-2970