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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. still out of luck, time for plan B or C. by twitter · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Most noise laws would not ban a mosquito device. I've seen people defeated with noise meters on the front porch of their house next to a frat party going full blast. While annoying to any normal person, it was not illegally loud.

    Your best chances are to be a little less paranoid and irritable yourself. Did he tell you he was out to get you or did you imagine that? He might really just be out to get the bugs? Offer to buy him a better model bug zapper. How could he refuse an offer like that? Of course, you could be right and he hates you for no good reason and you will have to learn to live with it. He can buy as many zappers as you break and get you arrested besides. In that case, drink another beer and turn the music up another notch.

    The general rule is that being friendly in the first place is cheap, confrontation is expensive, and ignoring the problem makes it go away.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  2. Don't get even, get BIGGER! by Dark+Coder · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Alrighty, so the old sap is deaf?

    Just breed Asian tiger mosquitoes and unleash them using one of those geek-garage motion-detected trap release mechanism to your collection jar.

    These Aedes albopictus varmits are HUGE and fairly impervious to ultrasonic.

  3. Re:You call this a neighbor problem? by iangoldby · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I hesitate over dignifying the above with a response, but I am utterly fed up with this kind of childish name-calling.

    As a Christian, I have no particular reason to defend Islam, but I've seen enough of attacks on religions where the attack is based entirely on the behaviour of a small minority who probably don't even deserve to be called followers of that religion in the first place.

    So, to put the record straight, in response to your question "What are the core tenets of Islam?":

    1. "I testify that there is no god but God (Arabic:Allah) and I testify that Muhammad is the Messenger of God."

    2. Prayer five times a day.

    3. Personal resonsibility to give alms to the poor.

    4. Fasting during the month of Ramadan.

    5. A pilgrimage to Mecca at least once.

    (Information taken from Wikipedia.)

    Not much there about calling for the destruction of Israel or supporting terrorists, is there?

    Now the question remains: "Do the leaders of the political state of Israel and their supporters, based on their recent actions, deserve to be called Jews?"