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Originally posted by Porsche-O-Phile
www.snopes.com

Don't believe everything you hear Captain Gullible.
Hey, excellent disclaimer ya got there for snopes.

Having worked, designing and testing RF (cellular) equipment, I'm siding with the fly-boys on this one. Except I won't even go so far as to say "MAYBE if you had one of the old 3-watt construction-site "bag phones" you could generate enough flux."

Consider cellular base-stations are often located at gas-stations.

Here's a smartly hidden Antenna is inside the vertical sign with the Shell logo.



a lot more than 3W pumping out of that thing. --oooohh, scary.

Your cars starter-motor makes a hell of a lot more spark than and cell phone.
Soooo . ...We ought to ban cars from gas stations.
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