Re: Drunk cityrail driver

["Peter Parker" <parkerp@alphalink.com.au>]

Bill <billguest@the.net.nz> wrote in message
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> A scanner may be fun, but be careful what you repeat. The law as I
understand
> it is that listening to radio communications is not illegal, but "making
use"
> of what you hear may well be.

Quite right.  The Judicious Rex column of this month's Radio and
Communications magazine
(page 39) addresses this very issue.

>As I see it, that means repeating it.

Certainly in the case repeating the information to people who could use the
information for
commercial or illegal purposes.

Because this group is a public medium, you never know whose reading, so I
would likewise urge
caution.   We don't want to give the authorities any excuse to ban scanners!

Peter

In a lot of
> situations, it probably has no significance at all, but if there could be
a
> question of criminal proceedings, or of employment disciplinary
proceedings, it
> would be prudent to omit the mention of the scanner as the source of your
> information.
>
> But I agree, it is interesting listening in!
>
> thebaron@nospam.ozemail.com.au wrote:
>
> > Yesterday i was listening with my new scanner and heard that the police
> > had been called to breathalise the driver of a cityrail train due to
arrive
> > at platform 18 at central at 10.57am yesterday morning. The train would
> > be held until they arrived. bit of a worry, anyone hear what happened.
> > You'd have to assume the guard reported him and was scared half to
death.
>