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UK Commissioner Seeks To Ban Ultrasonic Anti-Teen Device
mikesd81 points out a Times Online article that discusses the legality of the Mosquito sound device, which is used to annoy and drive off younger people with sounds that are too high-pitched for most adults to hear. We discussed how annoying this device can be a couple years ago. From Times Online:
"Sir Albert Aynsley-Green, the Children's Commissioner for England appointed to represent the views of the country's 11 million children, has set up a campaign — called Buzz Off — that is calling for the Mosquito to be banned on grounds that it infringes the rights of young people. 'These devices are indiscriminate and target all children and young people, including babies, regardless of whether they are behaving or misbehaving,' Sir Al told the BBC. 'The use of measures such as these are simply demonizing children and young people, creating a dangerous and widening divide between the young and the old.'"
As to the original device, maybe the little bastards will understand how I feel every time they drive by in their car or park outside, playing the latest example of what passes for music these days, with the bass level set at "stun small mammals".
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A way to make you darn kids get off my lawn!
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Miss, I don't think you were listing to the right music. After all the loud amplified music I listened to in my youth, a high frequency ringing is just about all I hear.
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kids are monsters. If there's a device to drive them off that's fantastic. Is there a similar device for lawyers?
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
I just have to say that that is the most stupid idea I've ever heard. It's so absurd that I can't even laugh at how stupid it is. I'm not even sure I believe you, but the nagging thought in the back of my head tells me that someone, somewhere out there, thought that was a good idea.
Jesus fucking Christ that's idiotic.
Oddly enough, I have found some references on the Internet to a technology which may be able to counter devices like this. Supposedly the US Military currently issues this equipment to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to help defeat noise-related threats. Does anybody know if this technology really exists, or is it just science fiction?
In Australia we use Barry Manilow. Downside is it chases everyone away.
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where I can get one of these for my lawn?
Oh, ok. Now I see how that could put people away :)
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That's no mistake. Really young kids' hearing is SO good they can actually hear silence. It drives them nuts!!
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they just hang around a couple of hundred yards away from the arcade where the thing's sited.
Some rocket scientist put a device that repels teenagers next to an arcade? Brilliant!
With credit to Massad Ayoob for his insightfulness -
You made a mistake by not helping this guy. You needed to communicate with him. You needed to ask him a deep, existential question that would cause him to question and reassess his actions, attitudes, and core beliefs in light of the impact he is having on the world and of the impact the world can have on him. You needed to ask him a question that would help him onto the path of nonviolent enlightenment.
Sometimes you can even ask such a question without using any words at all.
A question like -
"You don't really want me to shoot you in the face with this .38, do you?"
Oh, wait. You're in the UK.
Never mind...
"It was so sad to see, after Katrina, that somehow many kids, most from the projects....came back to the city with no parents at all"
Their parents aren't dead or missing, they just knew that this was the best opportunity to ditch the little bastards for good.
"But this one goes to 11!"
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