Iowa Payphone Defends Itself (Associated Press, 1984)
TigerUniversity
24 points
6 comments
March 10, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
PaulHoule
We used to call it a "phortress"
quuxplusone
What an ad-infested website. The full AP story from 1984 (including the last two sentences, which were snipped off of the clipping in TFA for some reason) is available in a few places, e.g. in the Lake City Reporter of 1984-10-31, under the headline "Fight With Phone Lost": https://newspapers.uflib.ufl.edu/UF00028308/08196/zoom/18
tengbretson
Alternate title: "Local man not a snitch"