Not the end of the story. We did not drink the kool-aid; you don't see it from our end and apparently don't particularly care, but those of us who do this for a living know the harm it can do.
A radio affiliating using an ID that's in use by someone else can wreak havoc by screwing up the affiliation process; the normal user is turned on and affiliates, no problem. The illegal radio turns on and affiliates, and the system thinks the legitimate radio has changed channels; all of a sudden the legitimate radio is hearing and/or talking to stuff it shouldn't be. I've seen it happen, including a couple of times to firefighters in the middle of a working fire. Both times it was a simple ID programming error somewhere in the system footprint that caused the problem, but the result is the same.
The potential risk to the safety of public safety personnel makes this reprehensible behavior; do you want to be the one who causes a firefighter to be injured or die in a fire because your illegal radio screwed things up? Hope you can live with yourself.
