@mystery-ak @Sighlass @Cyber Liberty@roamer_1A story: sometimes electric wires/connections/electronic gadgets/water can cause a fake attack on communication - and it can be embarrassing, to wit:
1. I am in my home office working on a psychological report.
2. Husband, unknown to me, gets home from work in another part of the house.
3. Phone rings - man on phone says, "What is your emergency?" I said I did not have an emergency. He said, "Yes you have, you rang 911." I said no, I didn't. He said, "Yes you did." He finally believed me, I had no emergency, did not ring 911, except I did. He hangs up.
4. Man calls back, asked if my husband was at home. I got up, looked in den, there was husband, told man he is home.
5. Man says, "Tell your husband to stay off the phone, he was on the phone, telling dirty jokes to someone, and his voice is going through our communication system and every loud speaker in police, mail room, emergency agencies, fire dept., is hearing these dirty jokes." He said, "Stay off your phone, until I call you." I say okay.
6. I go in den, ask husband who he was talking to on the phone. He said his daughter (she was in her 30s). I tell him every joke he told was broadcast through speakers to police, fire, emergency, mail room. He laughed and laughed.
7. Finally get a call from the man again. He said rain water had gotten in communications wires underground not far from our house and put our phone communications through to them. Repairmen dug down, found it and fixed it. He said we could use the phone again.
8. Husbands. I loved him; he died in 1989 of cancer.