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At least he’ll get to make a phone call in jail.

A Brooklyn man was so desperate to make a call that he posed as a Verizon worker and broke into a utility box to get to a phone, authorities said.

A Verizon supervisor spotted James Mitchell, 45, wearing a tool belt stuffed with Verizon equipment as he was perched on a telephone pole Monday morning in Bedford-Stuyvesant.”‘”

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