Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device?

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?"

Comments

Re:Did anyone read the site?

[kylegordon]

Uurrm, thanks for telling us everything we already knew about the article... Unless you're reading a parallel universe article where the old man claims he is using it to repel Mosquitos instead of people...

If he can't hear it...

[Onuma]

If this person can't hear the noise, how does he know it's operating properly at all? Does he just assume that the influx of complaints is an affirmation of the mosquito's noise working?

It should just be a normal speaker wire or coaxial cable running to this device, either inconspicuously use some wire cutters on it, or otherwise discreetly disable the line itself. It doesn't take a electrical engineer to screw up some speaker wire, and he won't know if the sound has stopped.

For gags too, you could put a slow tap of arsenic in his water pipes so he gets stomach cancer-like symptoms and dies. That's just the more sadistic side of me though :) I mean, he's 80...do you really think they'd do an autopsy to figure out the cause of death? Dubiously. [/jokes]