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Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the high-tech-hijinx-and-migraines dept.

amicold asks: "For a while now my neighborhood has had to deal with an elderly neighbor who has displayed a slightly paranoid attitude towards myself and the fellow younger-adults of the neighborhood, believing us to be attempting to harass him in our day-to-day activities. Recently, he installed a Mosquito ultrasonic noise device as an apparent attempt to 'get back at us' for our harassment. As the Mosquito emits a sound that's well out of his hearing range, he can't hear it, while most of the rest of the neighborhood is under 40 and can; at which point it's causing everyone a great deal of discomfort. Unfortunately, because the police also can't hear it, we can't get the authorities to do anything about it, leaving us empty-handed in our attempts at getting some peace and quiet back. What can we do to either help the police realize how disturbing this device is, or counteract it so that it's no longer disturbing us? And is this the first of what may be a growing trend of civilians using high-tech discomfort weapons as a method of neighborhood warfare?"

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  1. Re:Well, you could start by... by realkiwi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. start harrassing him just so that he gets his value scale right
    2. throw a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktail Molotov cocktail through his living room window...
    3. do drive by paintball shootings...

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    realkiwi
  2. Re:Well, you could start by... by drsquare · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yeah, like getting yourself tossed in jail for vandalizing other people's property! Woo, hoo!
    How can you be tossed in jail when no-one knows who did it?

    Around these parts, if some old fuck pissed everyone off with a mosquito device, he'd just get put in hospital.
  3. What are you, gay? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, that'll work. And then the magical love fairies will fly straight out of my ass and perform feats of synchronized flight to the delight of all the neighborhood children! And they lived happily ever after! Amen!

  4. Re:I call bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just because you can't hear it....

    ha, ya old fogey

  5. Re:Well, you could start by... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So what do you do when somebody is raping your wife? leave him alone because if you fight back you're being amoral?

    oooh ooh I don't want to punch him.. that would be illegal.. *cries* I'm such a pussy.

    who gives a fuck about the morals of life if you're the one getting fucked over all the time.