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PSTN is really a throwback to the days of the oldest phone switchboards. When a long-distance call using the network is made, the switching network connects the caller and the recipient's telephones via a series of analog telephone lines...
...next call is a hang-up; perhaps it is a prank, more likely it is someone who got tired of waiting. As part of KISS 108's ongoing commitment to keep up with its listener's interests. David must record each call, keeping track of the caller's approximate age and gender: "We want to know what songs people want to listen to at what time." he explains...
...never meant to hurt anybody and he didn't take specific aim," says Woodard. "He just meant to scare 'em, I guess. But then something went terribly wrong." She learned of the shooting from two back-to-back phone calls. "Don't you know?" demanded the first caller. Then her son Monte, 11, rang: "Mom, you have to come get me. Mitchell shot some kids...
...shots continued, first methodical and then faster and faster even as survivors dialed the emergency dispatcher. "There's been blood loss," reported the first caller, breathless. "People with blood loss." Michael Barnes, 12, was looking elsewhere for help. There was no way to retreat into the school buildings; the doors had automatically locked as the finale of the fire drill. So, crawling to the shelter of the gymnasium, Barnes chanted Psalm 23 to himself: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil...
...hope your boy gets raped in jail and killed." The words, angry and exasperated, from an anonymous caller, burn into the ears of Jackie Golden, grandmother of Andrew Golden. For a moment she is too shaken to speak. "I know people have been killed," she says, trembling from the venom. She knows it is widespread. But, she says, Andrew is still my grandson...