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Billy Mayfield

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Jul 25, 2001, 5:22:37 PM7/25/01
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Does anyone know where i can get a masterkey for payphones here in the us?
Please advise.


Peter

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Jul 25, 2001, 5:47:05 PM7/25/01
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Ha ha ha!

Pay phones (at least those operated by established telephone
companies) are unlikely to be masterkeyed, since the the risk of
compromise is too great.

The lower compartments (where the $$$ is) are normally keyed
differently using locks with decent security (Medeco, Kaba, or even
the old fashioned six lever lock with false gates etc).

Upper compartments are usually keyed alike (which is not masterkeying)
for ease of servicing.

Modern parking meters have a secondary solenoid lock on their coin
compartments, so it is likely that modern pay phones have them too.

Even if you have pay phone keys, the phones are probably alarmed, so
you may be giving your local bail company some business if you use
them.

Peter

Darren Ingleson

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Jul 25, 2001, 9:16:34 PM7/25/01
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And Billy, you need this ..ahem...masterkey for what reason?

Unless you are the Wichita Lineman (my apologies to Glenn Campbell) pay
heed to the next line:

Get lost!

As smart as a bag of hammers.

Darren

Wildwood Lock

In article <3SG77.203$1K....@newsfeed.slurp.net>, "Billy Mayfield"
<mayfie...@amaonline.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know where i can get a masterkey for payphones here in the us?
> Please advise.

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Thomas Murden

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Jul 25, 2001, 9:33:14 PM7/25/01
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Why not ask the phone company? They're nice people, they'd probably be
happy to accomodate such a simple request! I'd loan you mine, but I need it
to get change for the parking meter.

"Billy Mayfield" <mayfie...@amaonline.com> wrote in message
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Jay Hennigan

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Jul 28, 2001, 2:08:18 PM7/28/01
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On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:33:14 GMT, Thomas Murden <MURD...@prodigy.net> wrote:
:Why not ask the phone company? They're nice people, they'd probably be

:happy to accomodate such a simple request! I'd loan you mine, but I need it
:to get change for the parking meter.

You do? you're going about it wrong. Just ask your friendly police
department for a master key to the parking meters. Then you can use it
whenever you need change for the pay phone. This works well when the
phone company isn't so accommodating.

Bob DeWeese

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Jul 29, 2001, 12:57:28 PM7/29/01
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Seems like an awful lot of trouble just to get change for the parking meter.
Why not just get a "masterkey" puts time on the meter? In fact why not also
get a key to the parking meter's coinbox in case you need change for a phone
call.

Wait a minute. Isn't this where we came in?

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specializing in professional, cost effective solutions to your Commercial,
Residential, Safe, and Automotive Security Problems.

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Peter

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Jul 29, 2001, 8:56:14 PM7/29/01
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 12:57:28 -0400, "Bob DeWeese"
<bearl...@spam-erols.com> wrote:

>Seems like an awful lot of trouble just to get change for the parking meter.
>Why not just get a "masterkey" puts time on the meter? In fact why not also
>get a key to the parking meter's coinbox in case you need change for a phone
>call.
>

This is getting as bad as the movie 'Dr Strangelove' where the only
working phone was a pay phone, the White House would not accept a
collect call, so the RAF Officer ordered a soldier to shoot up a Coca
Cola machine.

Peter

Thomas Murden

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Jul 29, 2001, 10:11:32 PM7/29/01
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Now you did it! I no longer have any idea what we were discussing!

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Roger Shoaf

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Jul 29, 2001, 11:25:37 PM7/29/01
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Peter <pmi...@the.net.nz> wrote in message
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Well it better be an issue of national security or you will have to answer
to the Coca Cola company.

--
Roger Shoaf
If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent.


Dick Burg

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Jul 30, 2001, 10:25:28 AM7/30/01
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 02:11:32 GMT, "Thomas Murden"
<MURD...@prodigy.net> wrote:

>Now you did it! I no longer have any idea what we were discussing!
>

Why would that be a problem?

Dick Burg

Thomas Murden

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Jul 30, 2001, 9:57:41 PM7/30/01
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Yes!

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Joe Kesselman

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Aug 2, 2001, 9:19:32 PM8/2/01
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Peter wrote:
> This is getting as bad as the movie 'Dr Strangelove' where the only
> working phone was a pay phone, the White House would not accept a
> collect call, so the RAF Officer ordered a soldier to shoot up a Coca
> Cola machine.
>
> Peter

Sellers, in fact. Another Peter.

"But you know what'll happen if the President won't speak to you."
"... What?"
"You're gonna have to answer to the Coca Cola company."

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