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Back in the late '80's, someone we knew climbed the pole in the middle of the night and connected his TV to the outside cable line. To top it off, he somehow managed to get his hands on a cable box/descrambler and he was getting everything that was on cable for free. He was laughing about it when he first did it; but, he wasn't laughing when the cable company finally caught up with him.
Today, it's a lot harder to steal the cable, since the boxes required to view the channels must be activated by the cable company.
I also remember the traps that they'd install in the line to keep the viewer from watching certain channels or certain bands of channels. Many people would simply bypass the trap and that was all it took to get the additional channels.
I've also heard of people wrapping a piece of aluminum foil around the cable wire in order to receive certain premium channels.
Last edited by radiotvnut; 02-06-2013 at 01:13 AM.
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