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Police Detective Steve Moger was the first to notice that something strange was going on in Hackensack, N.J. Starting in February, hundreds of people were lining up at pay-phone booths all over town, chatting for hours at a time. A two-week investigation by local police and New Jersey Bell uncovered the cause of that loquaciousness: a computer glitch that allowed 400 pay phones in the Hackensack area to be used for worldwide conversations without costing the caller a cent. After bugging selected phones, the authorities realized that almost half the international calls placed in an eight-week period...
...crackdown soon followed, and among those who felt the law's pinch were an Israeli vice consul based in New York City, Hanan Moked, 43, and his wife Ilana, 40. The couple was arrested after making a series of calls between Hackensack and Israel. Making such a call from a malfunctioning phone is considered to be a deliberate defrauding of the phone company. Moked is charged with theft of services, punishable by up to six months in jail or a $1,000 fine. Are officials at the Israeli consulate embarrassed by the episode? "To say the least," says Consul General...
That Big 'H' on your roommate's sweater doesn't mean he's from Hackensack, N.J., rather it most likely stands for an even more august and tradition-laden institution...
...Wanda! Why don't I just take over the Westheimer show and give it some class? I'll call it Ask Dr. Ralph or Orgasmically Speaking, something upscale and tony like that. Horny housewives and bored cabbies can tune in as I deftly field anguished queries from Marvin of Hackensack, whose penis apparently swivels too much to the left, and Elsie of Batavia, who cannot achieve the Big O unless there's a chimp in the room. Naturally, I would take the high ground, quelling all this genital turmoil by declaring everyone normal, including the chimp, and instructing all listeners...
...Hackensack...