Joybubbles

Posted by thunderbong on Sunday October 17, 2021 @12:59AM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joybubbles

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Re:Joybubbles by rkagerer on Sunday October 17, 2021 @05:45AM (#28895185)

in summer 1968 ... an employee of the Florida Bell Telephone Company illegally monitored Engressia's telephone conversations and divulged them to the FBI

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Re:Joybubbles by mysterydip on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:32AM (#28895715)

Nothing about the employee being charged, either. But at least law enforcement was able to raid his house to get a malicious mischief charge.

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Re:Joybubbles by lozf on Sunday October 17, 2021 @03:30PM (#28899072)

Those interested in his story may also like "A Call from Joybubbles"(2017) produced by Jeremy Grange for BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hlnjq [audio, 28 min].

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Re:Joybubbles by ArnoVW on Sunday October 17, 2021 @04:19AM (#28894844)

I imagine this person is the reason that David Strathairn's personage in Sneakers (1992) is called Whistler.

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Re:Joybubbles by sneak on Sunday October 17, 2021 @05:19AM (#28895069)

The article mentions that.

...not that I care about that movie or anything.

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Re:Joybubbles by HamburgerEmoji on Sunday October 17, 2021 @08:53AM (#28896109)

I thought the story about whistling frequencies was apocryphal, but no, he's really doing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVZm7I1CTBs

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