Brilliant idea. :D

[Bazman63]

You gotta love these guys.

US police are hunting hackers who tapped into the radio at a fast food drive-through and insulted customers.
The offenders are reportedly tapping into the wireless frequency at the Burger King restaurant in Troy, Michigan, AP news agency reported.

One customer who placed an order was told: "You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead."

Police said the pranksters could face misdemeanour charges carrying up to three months in jail plus fines.

Insults

Troy policeman Gerry Scherlink said the hackers told another customer who had placed an order for Coca-Cola: "We don't have Coke."

When the customer asked what they had, the hacker said: "We don't have anything. Pull ahead."

Police suspect that calls are being made using a radio transmitter or walkie-talkie near the restaurant.

The owner of the affected Burger King franchise, Tony Versace, said: "We apologise to our customers who've been insulted by the use of this drive-through speaker."

Police said the culprits were probably watching and broadcasting from close range and could be charged with misdemeanour if caught.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3385743.

[godoncrack]

they stole me idea
THIEVES!!!

[s1138]

lol
thats pretty funny actually.

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Taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3385743.stm

Hackers heckle drive-in diners

US police are hunting hackers who tapped into the radio at a fast food drive-through and insulted customers.

The offenders are reportedly tapping into the wireless frequency at the Burger
King restaurant in Troy, Michigan, AP news agency reported.

One customer who placed an order was told: "You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead."

Police said the pranksters could face misdemeanour charges carrying up to three months in jail plus fines.

Insults

Troy policeman Gerry Scherlink said the hackers told another customer who had placed an order for Coca-Cola: "We don't have Coke."

When the customer asked what they had, the hacker said: "We don't have anything. Pull ahead."

Police suspect that calls are being made using a radio transmitter or walkie-talkie near the restaurant.

The owner of the affected Burger King franchise, Tony Versace, said: "We apologise to our customers who've been insulted by the use of this drive-through speaker."

Police said the culprits were probably watching and broadcasting from close range and could be charged with misdemeanour if caught.

[k_rock923]

i heard about that. i don't know how the police would ever catch them. it is kinda funny though

[Bazman63]

I beat you to it, man.
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=164200

[Vie]

LOL best thing to do to fast food places.

[taylormemer]

That stuf is easy to do, on the right frequency you can hear other peoples conversations on walk-about home phones. The place needs to set-up a coded system, that's what the DECT cordless phones are all about, they are coded individualy so you can't hear or transmit signals on that frequency within the range of the phone.

It does sound pretty funny however.

[hungryskull]

That would be fun. Or you could use it to overpower everything they say with loud music.

[s1138]

hmm...it would be rather interesting to find the frequencies....

[taylormemer]

Your everyday tuner can't tune to the frequencies, only something like these will, that's out set-up but we don't sit there listening to peoples convos all day, we use it as communication

[k_rock923]

taylor, sometimes i hear radio conversations on my guitar amp. have you ever heard of anything like that happening? and have any ideas on why the hell it happens.

[taylormemer]

Yes that happens to me aswell, if the amp is big enough it will hear conversations.
Now think of a amplifier as a radio, that is all it's doing. A radio is an aerial hooked up to an amp which then goes out to a speaker. Some amps are shielded from radio signals.