Not many people carry pagers these days — we’re not even sure if drug dealers still do (any readers/dealers want to chime in?) — but Martin Sweeney does AND HE HAS LOST IT.

This has been an update on everyone’s favorite pager-carrying council president.
This article appears in Apr 10-16, 2013.

Pagers don’t even work anymore….
A true beacon of responsibility, an example for us all.
cbrbart, not true. Doctors still use them because they have better reception than cellphones, since they’re a lower frequency, which means the likelihood of the signal being stymied from a structure or a poor reception area is pretty much impossible. So even when your cell gets no signal you can still get paged.