We had a party line until about 1970. Could never use the phone. Every time we picked up the phone to use it, the folks down the road would scream "We're on the phone, hang up".
When I was stationed in Germany in the '80's, the folks there had meters attached to their phones/lines at the phone that resembled odometers that clicked off units while in use provided by talk battery so that they could keep track of their usage for billing. One of the guys I was stationed with in Mannheim had an apartment out on the economy like I did instead of living in the barracks. His apartment was in the basement of the owners home, and he tapped into their line and used it. He got caught one day when the owner noticed his meter clicking off when no one was using the phone, so the owner reported it to the Polizei, whom monitored and caught the guy, whom was prosecuted and went to prison in Germany. He was still in prison when I left and the Army had plans of trying him when he got out for being AWOL, and whatever else. He was going to have to do some time in either the Coleman Stockade or be shipped back to Leavenworth, and then after serving that time, still serve out the rest of his enlistment as a PVT, and then be dishonorably discharged...over an illegal party line.
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