BEIRUT

PAGER OWNERS ACROSS the planet are on guard just in case Israel takes a dislike to them. And it could affect the whole pager market.

The explosion of hundreds of the devices in Lebanon has left 9 members of Hezbollah dead and thousands injured.

“Man, who’ll ever trust their pager again?” said Bob, a Wall Street analyst. “Though what the hell people are using pagers for these days is beyond me. Anyway, I’m waiting for pager shares to dive and I’ll buy in at the bottom. There’s a lot of money to be made here. I bet Mossad are doing that already. To pay for the war. You hear about that a lot these days. Attacks on specific industries to drive the shares down.”