What is thing??

[lukc22]

Hello- I am trying to find out what this is... it was found behind a phone jack in an older home... thank you for any help!

 

[olds]

Thermonulcear device

 

[MongGrel]

A really old NSA listening bug.

Get out of the house. Now.

 

[lukc22]

I was really hoping to get some real info on it...

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Was the previous owner deaf? It looks like a device I've seen that flashes the lights when someone calls.

 

[SKORPI0]

Probably those speakers/microphone found in old phones.

 

[clamum]

I'm not sure but I accidentally the whole thing!

 

[lukc22]

It was behind a jack in the wall... So, im not sure how that would help some one determine that they were getting a call...

 

[CZroe]

It looks familiar. I recall something like that you could stick on the back of the phone for recording it and it would pick up off the magnetic coil in the speaker but that wouldn't make sense where it is.

 

[Childs]

Its a cat toy. You connect it to your testicles, then dance around. The previous owners cat must have got ahold of it and hid it from the owner. Some cats don't like it.

 

[LTC8K6]

Looks like a load coil and resistor. It compensates for something or other in the copper lines.

 

[Possessed Freak]

He can show you: https://33.media.tumblr.com/e2886fe223b3a4ee56fcc2bbcef4863b/tumblr_neb9cvi2wF1sk0xezo1_500.gif

Honest answer: If I were to guess, it is to get rid of outside interference.

 

[OverVolt]

Oooooo to get rid of static on an old actual landline?

 

[RossMAN]

A leg and steering wheel, what do I win?

 

[Iron Woode]

What is thing??

How is babby formed?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Try taking it with a camera that was made after year 2000, it might be easier to tell. It looks like something electrical but that's all I get from it. Is that black thing a battery?

 

[Carson Dyle]

Do you wash those blue jeans?

 

[zinfamous]

baaby sucks pacifier: burns baaby genitels!

horrible device--DO NOT PUT BAABY THERE!

 

[lukc22]

Thank you to those that have given real responses... yes, i wash the jeans... they get dirty at work and i had just left work... The pic was taken with a new Galaxy S5 (slightly newer than 2000).... Made have been a little fuzzy while flying down the highway in my SS camaro.... geez people

 

[lukc22]

The black thing isnt a battery... it gives a low orange glow when voltage applied...

 

[rudeguy]

I really don't think that is for a phone at all.

Those connectors are way too big to connect to anything phone wiring related. The top part looks like it should hook onto something, but what? Can you get a clearer picture of the top part and any markings on the middle part?

Maybe its some type of resistor or maybe a piece of test equipment from way back when?

 

[Newell Steamer]

nsfwhttp://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/A+message+from+batman+dick+butt+is+cool_4815a2_4008558.jpgnsfw

 

[Carson Dyle]

I really don't think that is for a phone at all.

Those connectors are way too big to connect to anything phone wiring related.

They look pretty standard to me.

 

[BoomerD]

The FBI will be by to re-install their listening device when you're gone.

 

[rudeguy]

They look pretty standard to me.

I remember them being way smaller.

Need a banana for scale