Rowdy teenagers beware: the Mosquito is coming

[Ambrosio Spinola]

I wonder if we could modify that thing so that it scares inmigrants away :D

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-11-30T194503Z_01_SIB071070_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-LIFE-BRITAIN-TEENAGERS.XML&archived=False

LONDON (Reuters) - A Welsh inventor claims to have found the perfect solution to rowdy youngsters -- noise.

Howard Stapleton says his device, the "Mosquito", emits an uncomfortable high-pitched ultrasonic sound that can be heard by children and teenagers but almost no one over 30.

It has successfully driven away noisy teens from a grocery store in the Welsh town of Barry and a shop in Stapleton's home town Merthyr Tydfil, making smoking, lounging and foul-mouthed youths a thing of the past.

The ability to hear high frequencies deteriorates with age, but some adults might still be able to hear the Mosquito. No one except young troublemakers appears annoyed, however.

"All I'm getting is pats on the back," Stapleton told Reuters. "No bricks thrown at me yet."

He said teenagers he had talked to welcomed the device too, because they used to be intimidated by gangs hanging around the shops.

The Mosquito has turned Stapleton into a media star, with appearances on British TV and radio and interest from as far afield as Australia, the United States and Canada.

[Felix the Cat]

These kids need a spell in the Army

[Kodos]

What are the physical dimensions of the device... I don't think any real troublemaking youths will have any qualms about wrecking this thing...

[Excorcism]

What are the physical dimensions of the device... I don't think any real troublemaking youths will have any qualms about wrecking this thing...

ya well, if they try and approach the store owner (at least in the U.S.) they'll get pumped with lead or hit with a baseball bat.

[Kodos]

ya well, if they try and approach the store owner (at least in the U.S.) they'll get pumped with lead or hit with a baseball bat.

But it sounds like its designed to break up mallrats outside the store... sabotage target...

[1-800]

blah blah blah audio amplification uhhhhhhhhhhhh signal reconstruction 20 kHz ughhhhh yeahhh butterworth filter

Science is gay. Foul-mouthed teenagers should have the right to congregate wherever they want and intimdate old people.

[Excorcism]

But it sounds like its designed to break up mallrats outside the store... sabotage target...

I always viewed it as a way to break up loitering outside of normal stores (not those in malls). If kids couldn't loiter in malls, then malls would lose a good deal of business.