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[chappy]

Washington DC update 2
INCyr and I visited the 13:02 site this afternoon with no luck. Here is the current phone map:

The red star is the coordinate, there are no phones at that location or inside the triangular Federal Trade Commision building on that block. There are 2 pay phones at the corner; one has been ripped out and the other does not ring at the appropriate time (but it works). There are also two phones inside the metro; one has no dial tone and the other was in use (INCyr checked this one today). There is one phone in the Naval Heritage Center, it does not ring (I checked this one today).

There are no phones "in front of the Federal Trade Commission
building at Constitution Ave and 6th Street NW (202) 289-9396 289-9527" as reported on the payphone project site (INCyr and I checked both Constitution and 7 and Constitution and 6). The only options I see are the in-use phone in the metro, the "inside of the National Archives" phone (which needs to be located), or a broken/missing phone.

[Wynn]

I'm going to give the 2 cold Seattle axons a try in the morning.
47.617222, -122.321944 9:23am parasites
47.619722, -122.319167 10:38am durga

Maybe I'll be able to coordinate with Sphyx. Either way, I'll post an update tomorrow.

[Does Not Equal]

I'm going to try to activate the Spencer, WV axon tomorrow, if I can.

[Windlion]

The cold CT axons

[Aspmaster]

Even though I activated the Memphis Axon today, I have heard so many people ask what happens if you go to an Axon that has already gone HOT. So, I am thinking about checking to see if the Memphis Axon still rings tomorrow. What do you guys think?

[the42guy]

Hope this is the best place to post this. I surveyed around the Palo Alto location - not extremely carefully - but somewhat carefully.

On the atached map, you'll notice a few things.

0 - A blue dot, signifying the actual GPS coordinates (Actually - and this is INTERESTING - it appears that some od crosshairs appear at the location - I've never seen this on Mapquest before - does anyone know if it means anything?) - anyhow, everybody that went can tell you the area is residential, so unless the phone is in someones backyard....

1 & 2 - Red dots - there are 2 payphones here - one at the Lucille Stern center, one at the Junior Museum - both dont receive incoming calls (tested)

3- green dot - theres a payphone at Castilleja School that DOES receive incoming calls (tested) - but as you can see, its a bit far from the GPS coords - I doubt the coords would be THAT innacurate, but I guess you never know...

Anyhow, so thats the Palo Alto report... dont know if there are any phones I missed - anyhow though, thought I'd post this map for reference (and any PMs....:p)

[aliendial]

[JTFK]

Re: Report from NYC 11:08 Axon

[Crisko]

Cold Axons, dead ends, creepy coincidences

[darkphan]

12:35 Axon

[IcyMidnight]

In Response to Crisko RE: Coincidence

[Crisko]

Lol, don't worry. Like I said I'm not saying that these are solid clues or anything, I just wanted to bring up my observations of these coincidences. I mean, to end up at a place like that and see all of these coincidences is really -really- weird. x.x;

But still.. Beehive state. Wouldn't you be a little weirded out if you saw your state flag and the first thing you see is a beehive with bee's all over the place? xD

[Knightkap]

Hi there. First time caller, long-time listener...

Crisko, this is probably an incredibly stoopid question, BUT... you didn't happen to ask the guy who owned the house if he'd just received a freaky phone call, did you? This may be trout, but I seem to remember reading somewhere about one axon call being received in a--I want to say a Borders?--on a phone that was NOT on payphone. While IcyMidnight is probably right about coincidences, the strange house number sequence has my spidey sense tingling nonetheless...

Er, granted, given your already-odd conversation, the guy probably would have mentioned such a phone call, but... okay, I did preface this by admitting up-front that it was a stoopid question, yes?

[Crisko]

Haha

I was -very- blunt about the conversation with the guy, it didn't happen -exactly- like that.

It was more like 'I'm playing this game and I'm supposed to recieve a phone call from a payphone at this location' *points to map* 'but those coordinates are right on your house. Any idea why?'

If anything that conversation helped that guy out a lot because he's been seeing people in front of his house ever since the 24th... xD

But yes I did ask if he had gotten a phone call and he said that he hadn't.

[Murdock]

Darkphan,

I went to the say_something 12:35 axon on 8/27. Using thepayphone.org site and the geocode site, I found that the Independence 20 Theaters matched the GPS coordinates exactly. When I got there, there were already 4 other guys staking the phones out. We waited until the time came and went. No phone call. All of the phones were marked with no incoming calls accepted.

Since the phone never rang, I decided to take a look around the shopping center. The only other phone that I found was a payphone outside of Fazoli's. I called it, and it wouldn't accept incoming calls.

Realizing I never tried calling the phones at the theater, I went back to call them. There are 6 payphones at the theater. Four in the outside lobby (where you buy your tickets), and two in the inside lobby. I called all six phones. Only one took an incoming call. The phone that took the incoming call was one of the 4 in the outside lobby. It was in the right (East) bank of phones. The phone # that worked was XXX.XXX.1989

EDIT: When the phone rang, it was extremely quiet. It's possible that the guy staking out that phone didn't hear it. Just a heads-up for anyone who might try and get this axon.

I will not be able to make it to this location today 8/28. If the axon isn't activated today, I will try and make it there Sunday.

I have attached a map of the area.

Edited for clarification, and to add the note about the phone.