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.'"

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Re:Does ANYBODY know

[cayenne8]

"where I can get one of these for my lawn?"

Or one for nice restaurants.

I mean, they have "smoking, non-smoking"(at least still in some places).....I've always wished for "children NON-children".

I just hate it when I got to a place to eat that is a decent restaurant, and some idiots come in with their offspring that obviously haven't been trained to eat out in public, or are just too young to handle themselves. I've had to ask to be moved more than once due to howling kids, or having them running around loose...disturbing our meal.

If you not at a "chuck-e cheese's" restaurant, or something you expect to be kid friendly, PLEASE don't bring your kids out till they can behave through a meal. My parents didn't impose me as a youngster on the general public, till I was trained to behave myself. Once they trained, me, I did go to nice places, and learned manners and how to eat good food and enjoy it....but, don't take kids out before they're ready.