Mosquito sounds to avoid teenagers loitering
Posted: November 30th, 2005 | 5 Comments »The IHT has a strange story about a device, called the Mosquito (“It’s small and annoying,”), that emits a high-frequency pulsing sound which can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30.
So far, the Mosquito has been road-tested in only one place, at the entrance to the Spar convenience store in this town in south Wales. Like birds perched on telephone wires, surly teenagers used to plant themselves on the railings just outside the door, smoking, drinking, shouting rude words at customers and making regular disruptive forays inside.
“On the low end of the scale, it would be intimidating for customers,” said Robert Gough, who, with his parents, owns the store. “On the high end, they’d be in the shop fighting, stealing and assaulting the staff.” (…) The results were almost instantaneous. Where disaffected youths used to congregate, now there is no one.
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Stapleton is considering introducing a much louder unit that can be switched on in emergencies with a panic button.
It would be most useful when youths swarm into stores and begin stealing en masse, a phenomenon known in Britain as “steaming.”
Kind of scary, will we see that in France to avoid car fires?
what a great idea i own a shop this could be so perfect with me .i get a load of teenagers hanging around the shop .i know alot of shop owners who welcome the idea
How may we obtain a disc of the sounds?
im 17 years old, and although im a good boy, i still am not in favor of this device. i thinking about whether it got into the hands of the wrong people, it will be used for the wrong reasons. i can see adult letting them off in busses to get all the young people off. its like giving them a gun only able to harm anyone under thier age. guns are bad
I cannot beleive my eyes…
You welcome that stuff ?
you want to hear it ?
Have you ever head of 1984 ? or haldous huxley ?
Did you still know what freedom means ?
Poor poor letophage… you dont even realise what s going on.
Im not really trying to open your eyes because i already know what you will think of my comments but it s sad to see so many sheep
Counting bodies like sheep to the rythm of the war drums…
i would really like to get this sound, so i can use it at my store, i have alot of trouble, please send it to me