Is somebody wiretapping around here?

My mother is a guidance counselor in a Elementary/Middle School in this area. Now, we just heard that the principal's husband had picked up the phone in his home and (without dialing) was hearing clear as a bell the conversations in the phone of the principal's office at the school. The detail is that the Social worker has had experiences of using the phone of her office (a totally different number) and having similar cases.

This sounds eerily of somebody bugging the lines of that school. There is one detail: In Puerto Rico such a thing is not illegal; it's unconstitutional. Not even the police can do it and it's not admissible for court evidence of ANY trial (except federal ones). That means the only entity who can do that legally here would be the FBI.

The corruption in PR is spectacular, specially during the anexionist government of 1992-2000. There are more people sitting in the federal penitenciary for crimes such as extorsion, deviation of funds, bribery, and such than for violent crimes. Ranging from petty cases to the secretary of education and the speaker of the house. That principal was named with a series of positions that were done by the anexionists in the mid 1990s. Oddly enough, everyone named was a fervent anexionist. And the Social Worker does not have the Master's degree nescesary for that position (only Bachelor's) and doesn't even have the average of graduation nescesary for the license. There have also been a few strange cases of money in that school that's missing and students/teachers listed that don't appear ever (It has sometimes been used elsewhere in order to collect for your own purposes the paychecks and funds assigned for those phantom students/teachers).

We are independentists and my mother even had trouble getting that position due to the whole constant scheming, so it's obvious we are not to worry, but still, It's eery. Could it be that the feds are doing another investigation here?

Woah! Sounds heavy.

Is it possible they just had the phone off the hook and the line to you was still open? That happens sometimes here when I talk to someone and then we hang up then I go to make another call and I can hear their t.v. going and some conversation. They hung up the phone but not completely so the line wasn't severed when they hung up. I have to yell and yell at the phone until they hear and hang up because I can't use my phone until the line with them is severed.

anywho, just a suggestion.

Originally posted by Tamme

They hung up the phone but not completely so the line wasn't severed when they hung up. I have to yell and yell at the phone until they hear and hang up because I can't use my phone until the line with them is severed.

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I agree with Tamme. That used to happen to me fairly often too.

I agree with Tamme. That used to happen to me fairly often too.

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Me too! Once had a cross line too.

However if this is wiretapping, frankly I am not too sure which is more frightening being wiretapped or that the FBI is so incompetant at wiretapping. What happened to the billions spent on homeland security?

Sounds like a party line- anyone remember those? I remember growing up there were party lines all the time on our home phone.

That was my thought too, MA. Sounds like a party line. I grew up with those, and especially if the lines got crossed it could be a real mess.

Well, if it's that I would be more calm... What the hubby of the principal had heard was the conversations going on between the principal and another caller.

And yes, it has come through my mind if the FBI can be THAT stupid.... Just that with the kind of circunstances that have been going on it would be of no surprise if there is an investigation going on.

What's party lines? Never heard of that.

Originally posted by hissy
Sounds like a party line- anyone remember those? I remember growing up there were party lines all the time on our home phone.

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Remember them? The phone company that I work for still offers them! LOL

Could be a party line, could be some cross wiring, could be a PBX problem. I'd call the phone company and have them look into it.

When they wiretap, the person who does it actually unhooks a cap on the wire usually at a terminal leading into the phone. There's other ways to do it, but essentually when they wiretap, they are not using a nearby phone. It's at a remote location with a special phone designed to connect to a raw wire. I've seen it done.