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Nov. 15th, 2009
Bravo, say people like Vinnie Bartilucci, a computer programmer from Lehigh Valley, Pa. Among his methods for countering loud cellphone talkers is to place a small recording device he carries for work on the table next to the offender.
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Mr. Bartilucci did just that last summer at a McDonald's in lower Manhattan, soliciting the logical question: What are you doing? (Which was punctuated by an expletive.) "I said, 'Well, since you obviously want me to hear your conversation, I’d better keep a copy of it,'" Mr. Bartilucci recalled.
From the New York Times
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Mr. Bartilucci did just that last summer at a McDonald's in lower Manhattan, soliciting the logical question: What are you doing? (Which was punctuated by an expletive.) "I said, 'Well, since you obviously want me to hear your conversation, I’d better keep a copy of it,'" Mr. Bartilucci recalled.
From the New York Times