I was in a local business yesterday. Beautiful day, sunny and bright. Doors open and everyone enjoying the warm sunny weather. Down the street came an SUV, you know the kind that emits so much BASS that the walls start to vibrate while it is a block away. You can tell people in the store are getting annoyed. SUV turns into the parking lot, pulls right up to the front door. Sound is blaring to the point people are having a hard time conversing, and the whole building is jumping. SUV parks and one guy jumps out of the passenger side and enters the building. Noise continues, the clerk helping me holds up his index finger to indicate "just one moment". He punches a code into his computer, then he looks at me again and again stresses his movement, he punches the send button on his computer. Instantly loud sound dies, building quits shaking. Business resumes, clerk looks at me and says, "I sent out an Electro Magnetic Pulse". I smiled, and we continued to transact business.
As I left the guy that had jumped out of the SUV, was yelling at the woman driving the SUV, something about a pulse had fried her sound system. I got into my SUV and quietly drove away.
This happened yesterday. Last week I was driving with one of my son's buddies. As we approched an intersection we came up behind a car driving real slow. The female driver was on her cell phone. The light turned Red so she stopped, we stopped behind her. The woman had driven forward into the pedestrian crosswalk before stopping. The pedestrians were having to go around her car and was yelling at her, she was ignoring them talking on her cell. The young driver I was with opened his glove box and said, "Watch this". He pushed a button and held it for about five seconds. I noticed everyone around us was looking at their cell phones, even the woman ahead of us. She redialed her cell phone and started her conversation again. The young man pushed the button inside his glove box again for five seconds. Again she was looking at her cell phone. She redialed her number, started talking, again the button was pushed, and the cell phone call was dropped. About the fifth time the phone died the waman was in the process of punching in a number the light changed. The young man sat down on the horn so to speak. The woman threw her phone straight up and screamed. The horn is still blaring, the female driver in front of us took off through the intersection extreamely fast. As we proceeded down the highway I asked what the young man had done. He had jammed her cell phone. By pushing the button he had caused her cell phone to drop the call. He told me he could flip a switch and all cell phones within a certain area around him would be jammed and inoperable. By just pushing the button it only lasted for the duration of the button push. He had bought this device while in Europe last year. They are not availiable here in the US.
Our youth and their technology.
