Here's How to Make a Free Telephone Call From a Payphone in an Emergency
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Or some desperate crack addict.
The quarters that are inserted are kept above the hopper until after the headset is hung up. You can even hear the coins fall after the call. If the call doesn't go through, the coins in the "holding area" are refunded. Since you didn't put any coins into the phone, there is nothing to refund.
If you have dial tone, you can get a lot of free calls - as long as you know the local exchange code and the engineers over ride code - if you have telephone junction boxes in your country you will see the telephone engineer plug in hand sets into it to determine open lines - while the the telephone exchange is normally digital in this day and age, they still have to figure out which circuit to attach new lines to in the local juntion box.
It is not as common to see in this day and age as it was say 20 years ago as most houses now have a line attached, but if you go to a new build estate, you can still see them do it.
Calling a 1-800 number and telling the person picking up that you have the wrong number. Stay on the line after they hang up and a dial-tone will come up after about 15 seconds. But I don't think this works anymore, I think a busy signal comes up now.
When I was a kid we would go from one end of town to the other stuffing toilet paper in the coin returns, then come back a few hours later to see if anything had accumulated. Usually good for a few quarters for the arcade.
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They used too be everywhere but not anymore.I even worked in a shop that had one,inside!
Well thanks for the guide spectral I'm sure it could help someone in a jam:thumbsup:
The more you know and knowledge is power.
Fucking goof.
Thanks for sharing man.