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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?"
I've never had a "day-to-day activity" that caused strife. What're you doing? Slinging vials of crack?
Paranoid is as paranoid does. Perhaps you are actually and completely a pain in the ass?
Ask Dear Abby ... leave Slashdot alone.
It's 10:41 and all is silent. There's a few cars around. I guess everybody keeps the same schedule, and does nothing fun and loud such as blowtorching or using powerful engines to do work. Perhaps instead of calling gunfighters to shoot and/or cage people that make noise, we should all just enjoy the noises of creation. Hammering makes noise. Sawing makes noise. God forbid people use those newfangled 'engines' to build things, or powerful vehicles within the city at night, because it hurts people's ears. Sort of similar to stabbing them in the ears with a hot metal spike, except minus the crippling injury.
If nobody does anything, then there will be perfect silence. We're almost there now. Perhaps if everybody and everything died, then there would be no noise at all?
Perhaps if you were more tolerant of the people around you making noise, you could make noise too.
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...
You sir, who likes to call other people idiots, seem to lack a fundamental understanding of the relationship between frequency and wavelength, as well as the basics of using an internet search engine.
The wavelength of a 14 kilohertz sound is 21413.747 meters, not 2.5 centimeters.
2.5 cm is the wavelenth of a signal with a frequency of 11.99169832 gigahertz.
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?
:) I mean, he's 80...do you really think they'd do an autopsy to figure out the cause of death? Dubiously. [/jokes]
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
What else can happen when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object?
Just grow up!!!
Around here, if some young turd figures he has to prove how macho he is by beating up someone's grandfather he ends up nailed to his front door with a spike through his head with a note to his family to get the fuck off the continent.
You are such a fucking loser. My guess is that in the real world everyone pushes you around and it's only in the security of your own home that you manage to work yourself up to some righteous fit of manlyness.
As it should.