My friend David has a huge country house*
So that he'd know if people were coming down the drive, he got an old traffic counter off the council - you know the ones with the black rubber tube across the road.

He wired up the counter to his phone line and now the phones ring every time a car comes in or out (with a different ring for each).

BT complained about the voltage he was leaking into their system, so he stuck in a relay so that the ringer circuit was disconnected from BT before the ring current was sent.

And now the phone drops every time a car comes in the drive. This was 10 years ago, and it's still like that. He doesn't seem to mind. Just rings you back with, "sorry, that was the postman."


*he bought it derelict and has spent most of his adult life doing it up, starting with putting in a roof and then floors. It was cheap.
( chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 14:28, 2 replies)

you mean to say:
He lives in a house, a very big house, in the country?

Dare we ask why he needs such privacy - not into "agriculture", I hope?
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 21:58, closed)

Nah
Chavs driving vans down in the middle of the night and nicking stuff.
( chthonic, Fri 21 Aug 2009, 0:46, closed)