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| Author | Topic: Fake mayday call gets you jail time |
| RevengeFamily |
posted 08-07-2014 07:44 AM ET (US)  
18 months is not enough time as far as I'm concerned... Homer Lewis Blackburn from Atlantic Beach, N.C. put other peoples lives at risk while he watched would be rescuers from a balcony at his home... He's also required to pay $288,000 in restitution for making a false mayday call to the U.S. Coast Guard last fall. A link to the article I read... Norm |
| jimh |
posted 08-07-2014 09:38 AM ET (US)
There are many news articles on this story. Here is an earlier press release from the government: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nce/press/2014/2014-may-02.html I can't figure out how a citizen's band (CB) radio was involved. I do not believe that the Coast Guard in the USA keeps a radio watch on citizen's band frequencies. I think that must be a mistake in the testimony of a witness, confusing a CB radio with a marine band radio. The Coast Guard has announced it no longer maintains a radio watch on some standard marine frequencies like 2,182-kHz, which was formerly a distress calling channel. Why would they keep a radio watch on 27-MHz? |
| David Pendleton |
posted 08-07-2014 02:25 PM ET (US)
To a reporter, every radio is a CB radio; just like every rifle is an AK-47. |
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