A Father Accidentally Shut Down His Town’s Whole Internet in an Effort to Limit His Kids’ Screentime

In case you have n’t find , banter these days just do not bonk how to moderate theirscreen time . So , in a do-or-die bid to get his child offline , some guy in France apparently blitz his entire townspeople ’s internet connection — by fortuity , that is . He now face up to six months in prison house for the outage .

Areportfrom the outlet France Bleu says the unnamed dad try out to employ a multi - wave band jammer to temporarily reduce off the internet connexion at his residence in the Ithiel Town of Messanges . Jammers , which are illegal in France ( and alsoin the U.S. ) , solve by interfering with telecommunication signals , thus stifling WiFi and cyberspace connector . Despite their illegality , citizenry still get arrested for using them , pretty muchallthetime .

In this case , the papa in question deployed the twist in the Leslie Townes Hope of prying his social - media - addicted children away from the traveling bag of their machine . When afterward questioned by a political science functionary , the homo apparently admit that he only wanted to contract off the connectivity to his house at Nox , between the hour of midnight and 3 a.m.—probably so his small fry would put the phones down and just go to bed already .

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Unfortunately for the padre , the electronic jamming equipment was powerful enough to foreshorten connectivity not just to his own residence but , unbeknownst to him , to those of many , many others in the surrounding area . His neighbors eventually started report their outage , after which the government was forced to investigate . The outlet describe :

He was thinking of impoverish his only children of the internet and did not imagine that the wave jammer he was using would disrupt telecommunications in an country cross two municipality . An probe by the National Frequency Agency established his obligation and legal proceeding were initiated .

The man now face up to six months in prison house and a fine of 30,000 euros . Ouch . There ’s got ta be an easier room to unplug than this , common people .

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