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His neighbor was too noisy, so he used an RF remote to train him like a circus animal

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 02, 2026
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In 2007, Ibrahim Diallo switched to Dish Network and got an RF remote — the kind that doesn’t need line-of-sight. A few months later, his loud neighbor switched to Dish as well. Same remote, same frequency.

“One day, I was in the living room watching TV when the channel just flipped,” Diallo writes. “Then the volume went up.” H…

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