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== [[Movies]] ==
* ''[[Die Hard]]''—Averts averts this. McClane gets a bad guy's walkie-talkie, and talks to Al the policeman, and it's made clear that the bad guys can hear everything he's saying, hence why he goes by "Roy" instead of using his real name.
** Also plays it straight, when McClane is able to interrupt Hans in mid-sentence.
** In ''[[Live Free Oror Die Hard]]'', McClane uses the bad guy's CB's to contact the FBI. Partially justified in that he knew the correct frequency and had a world-class amateur hacker working for him [[In a World]] where hacking can do goddamn everything.
* ''[[Smokey and the Bandit]]''
* Everybody in ''[[The Cannonball Run]]'' seems to have their CB radio tuned to the same frequency. Possibly the racers had agreed to a specific frequency before the race started, but also they have no trouble communicating with plenty of random truck drivers during the race.
** Relatively justified since in the CB heydey channel 19 was a ''de facto'' standard for truckers on the interstate; there were exceptions for specific routes but they were pretty well known. Maybe they simply stayed on 19, or changed to 19 when they wanted to talk to a trucker.
* In the first ''[[Tremors]]'' movie, the people of Perfection use a CB radio to warn the Gummers of impending Bad Things possibly coming their way. Actually justified in this case, since it's made clear that they can't reach anyone outside their valley with their [[CBS]]CBs, and it would make sense for everyone to use the same frequency.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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