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The so-called “Mosquito” device emits high-frequency noise which is audible – and annoying – to young ears, but generally not heard by people over 20. “This device is a quick fix that does not tackle the root cause of the problem and it is indiscriminate,” English Children’s Commissioner Al Aynsley-Green said. The campaigners claim that about 3,500 of the devices, made by a Welsh company, are in use.
“I’m very concerned about what I see to be an emerging gap between the young and the old, the fears, the intolerance, even the hatred, of the older generation toward the young.” Shami Chakrabarti, director of the civil rights group Liberty, supported the campaign. “Imagine the outcry if a device was introduced that caused blanket discomfort to people of one race or gender, rather than to our kids,” Chakrabarti said. “The ‘Mosquito’ has no place in a country that values its children and seeks to instill them with dignity and respect.” “We tell shopkeepers to use it when they have a problem and I would be more than happy to introduce a contract which stipulates to shopkeepers how it can be used,” Stapleton was quoted as telling the Western Mail newspaper. “People talk about infringing human rights but what about the human rights of the shopkeeper who is seeing his business collapse because groups of unruly teenagers are driving away his customers?”
Now if they could just make a version for my lawn!
I’m 34 years old and I can hear the mosquito tones. They hurt my head.
My teenage daughter got one for her phone, because she thought the idea was cool. She played it once, then decided it was annoying and painful. She then experimented on the other family members…and pets. She came into the room and played it in front of my wife and I. I knew it was her from the look on her face. She figured it would be a good idea for torturing me (my wife couldn’t hear it)…until I reminded her who paid her cell phone bill.
I am over 50 and still hear ultrasonic alarm transmitters and no doubt the ‘mosquito’ noise.
I was in a Top Secret class some years back. The material was so sensitive that the room had an additional sonic alarm system. The thing was on all the time. I complained about the very high pitch noise busting my head, and since I was the top student in the school the instructors decided to prove that the sound couldn’t be heard. One guy went down the hall, he turned it off, I noticed, he turned it on, I noticed, they tried to trick me, but finally admitted that I was hearing the noise and they agreed to shut it down when I was in the room. . . . This worked fine until one day after school they forgot to turn it back on . . .
You don’t hear this stuff with your ears, it seems more like bone conduction, and it is sometimes painful and very irritating.
A long time ago, I bought one of those ultrasonic mosquito repellers because the stated claims sounded pretty nifty. Well, it was just my luck that all the mosquitoes at my house turned out to be deaf 😉
> The ‘Mosquito’ has no place in a country that
> values its children and seeks to instill them
> with dignity and respect.”
You mean like the dignity and respect that comes from children misbehaving to such a degree that the shopkeeper asks said child to leave and they refuse? Where this problem is so bad that the shopkeeper resorts to this sort of device to get some results? I would bet that the shopkeepers would be the first to tell people that if children actually acted with dignity and respect they wouldn’t need such a device.
#4 said it. The seeking and instilling part was supposed to come from the parents.
Can I get one of these to set on my table at a restaurant.
This reminds me of that special “ring tone” that supposedly only kids can hear, that kids use on their cell phones so the adults won’t know they are on it.
I can hear the sound it plays, but it mostly depends on how good your speakers are to reproduce it. I can hear it but it dosen’t bother me. My friend can hear it but it does bother him, while another friend can’t hear it at all.
To me it’s the same high pitched whine a transformer makes in a power supply, or CRT TV makes when you power it on. Or the sound you hear from a cameras flash when it’s charging up.
This is a bad idea. When those kids get smart, they’ll be back with portable speakers blasting really crappy deathmetal from their iPods.
0. “Now if they could just make a version for my lawn!”
You can get one free. Except it’s called Perry Como music. This sort of thing has been used successfully.
RBG
“I’m very concerned about what I see to be an emerging gap between the young and the old, the fears, the intolerance, even the hatred, of the older generation toward the young.”
Emerging? Come on, you’re just now noticing?
#8. Yeah, that would drive me away too.
#8 RBG, there ya go! Perry Como… even more effective than “you kids get off my lawn!” 😉
“I’m very concerned about what I see to be an emerging gap between the young and the old, the fears, the intolerance, even the hatred, of the older generation toward the young.”
Just remember when you get old and senile, it’s the young that takes care of you.
This is old news.
The only thing that will get kids off the streets is realistic sex education and free condoms !!! So what’s it to be, Mosquitos or Condoms ???
You guys that can hear that stuff…you need to get better headphones and a high volume portable CD player. That can take care of the problem in about six months. The tinnitus is a little annoying, but no worse than hearing TVs and HV equipment. 🙂
That’s a great album! (The Mosquito Control EP by the band Isis).
GAWD anyone remeber the old foil conductor alarm systems some 30 or so years ago!???
Those things were horrible! Most of the stores at a local shopping center had them. These were the most agonising devices ever made… i could not stand within 50 feet of these stores, it was like having a piezo electric device implanted in your head and it was constantly running……….
and no nice beep beep… just harsh steady tone…
I’ve heard the mosquito ring tones just as annoying.
While I’ve not heard them in a long time as i dont spend as much time out at dusk like a used to, i could also hear the ultrasonic calls of bats on their nightly hunts, those were a pleasent clicking type sound.
“You mean like the dignity and respect that comes from children misbehaving to such a degree that the shopkeeper asks said child to leave and they refuse? ”
If only there were some sort of agency that were responsible for people trespassing on private property. Some agency whose job was to police society and you could call them up and say, “These people are trespassing on private property, can you come arrest them.” If such a department of policing were to exist then the poor shopkeepers wouldn’t be at the mercy of these hoodlums.
Then again this is London where you can’t step foot outside without being on multiple cameras so it isn’t as if there is much civility an respect for privacy there anyway.
“This reminds me of that special “ring tone” that supposedly only kids can hear, that kids use on their cell phones so the adults won’t know they are on it.”
It should remind you of them because using high pitched tones to bother kids was the inspiration for using them as ringtones. This device first made news two years ago. old news. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito
“The ‘Mosquito’ has no place in a country that
values its children and seeks to instill them
with dignity and respect.”
Here’s my interpretation of one of those “valuable” kids:
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! I WANT THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
I almost forgot, they should also develop a taser for children.
I would pay $1000.00 right now for one of these devices if it could be worn. A force field effective against children has been one of my dreams since shortly after I was a child myself.
They should also be installed at every Starbucks.
Sounds OK to me.