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Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956
For several weeks, citizens of North Olmsted, Ohio—a small town a few miles west of a NASA research center—have been plagued by a mysterious force that has blocked their garage openers and car key fobs from functioning. But after many attempts by amateur sleuths and expert technicians to determine the source of the vexation, the problem has been resolved.
According to the New York Times, North Olmsted officials first began receiving reports about the issue in late April. Since then more than a dozen residents of the town and the neighboring Fairview Park have told authorities about their inability to use garage door openers and key fobs.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/a-mysterious-force-has-been-blocking-car-key-fobs-in-th-1834551015
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 08 2019, @06:07PM (1 child)
That must be a powerful battery operated transmitter that can prevent a car key fob operating within a meter of a car parked more than a block away, while simultaneously only registering as a blip on a signal detector a block away.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday May 08 2019, @07:03PM
Or the key fobs and the receiver are so poorly designed/cheap that the slightest interference is enough to make them fail.