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[2triky]

Tokyo ward to install sonic 'Mosquito' device at park to drive away loitering youths

Tokyo's Adachi Ward is poised to install a sonic device that emits an annoying high-frequency sound in a bid to discourage youths from loitering in a park late at night.

The ward plans to install the British-made "Mosquito" device at Kitashikahama Park on Thursday. Officials at Melc Co., the Japanese agency for the apparatus, said that just over 20 of the devices had been sold over a period of one year, mainly to convenience stores. It is reportedly the first time for a local body in Japan to install one. ...more...

[Samurai_Jerk]

So does that mean that any young person living near the park will be driven insane by the sound? They ought to keep the old farts doing their morning taisou out of the parks till a reasonable hour too. At my old place in Suginami-ku I used to wake up super early for a jog every once in a while. I would pass by a park that was surrounded by apartments and there would always be a group of worthless old tax burdens in there blaring that ubiquitous taisou tune that every Japanese person knows by heart and doing those idiotic Meiji Era exercises at about 5:45 in the morning. I used to think how fucking furious that would make me if I were living by that park and trying to get one more hour or so of sleep in before I had to go to work. I was sure though that any complaint that might have been made would have been ingnored since those wastes of space were old and therefore automatically command respect and people should be up by 5:45 AM anyway.

[2triky]

So does that mean that any young person living near the park will be driven insane by the sound?

I find it pretty remarkable that the technology employed can target or single out youngsters...

[Mock Cockpit]

I want one just for shits and giggles. Restaurant full of high school and you can't get a seat? Solution: make the little cunt's ears bleed. No "you space" on the train? Twiggle a switch and make their pointy little heads explode. What fun I'd have.

[Dragonette]

I find it pretty remarkable that the technology employed can target or single out youngsters...

Not to worry, at the rate they're going, this technology may well soon be obsolete. Then it will be upgraded, no doubt, to target all those ranbo under-65 aging hippies who haven't yet defected to the East Village.

[Socratesabroad]

I find it pretty remarkable that the technology employed can target or single out youngsters...

Nothing remarkable about itat all...

[CrankyBastard]

Ain't gonna work on us old farts. We're all feckin deaf!!

I was part of a protest rally to demand better health care for the elderly outside our ward office a while back.
It went something like this:
Guy with the Megaphone: [SIZE="2"][color="black"]"What do we want?"[/color][/SIZE]
Old folk: "Fuck knows!"
Guy with the megaphone: [SIZE="2"][color="Black"]"When do we want it?"[/color][/SIZE]
Old folk: "Want what?"

[2triky]

Nothing remarkable about itat all...

A little noise never hurt a bunch of chavs

[james]

I find it pretty remarkable that the technology employed can target or single out youngsters...

well i'm sure the links point to something to this effect, but basically the sound is at a pitch that is apparently inaudible to most people past their early 20s. there's a very sharp decline at this age in being able to hear (especially higher frequencies), which i think coincides roughly with a sharp rise in the number of marriages. this explains the hearing loss for roughly half the population.

the flip side of this is kids using cell-phone ringtones that are for the most part inaudible to their teachers.

some people much older can and do hear it though. i wouldn't be at all surprised to find that i could, given that i hear just about damn near everything else i'd rather not. things such as crt television being on even if there is no speaker sound.

[kurohinge1]

. . . given that i hear just about damn near everything else i'd rather not. things such as crt television being on even if there is no speaker sound.

Glad to hear that I'm not the only one with that "gift".

[2triky]

well i'm sure the links point to something to this effect, but basically the sound is at a pitch that is apparently inaudible to most people past their early 20s. there's a very sharp decline at this age in being able to hear (especially higher frequencies), which i think coincides roughly with a sharp rise in the number of marriages. this explains the hearing loss for roughly half the population.

Yeah, you're right...the article does point that out...still quite interesting...so given the wider range of hearing for dogs...I wonder if it will keep away them too...not that it matters because that's obviously not the source of the problem for the geezers complaining about the noise problem.

[Mike Oxlong]

Fighting noise with noise... Just one more layer to the deafening roar that is Japan.

[james]

does anyone know if this thing works on sparrows?

[Samurai_Jerk]

does anyone know if this thing works on sparrows?

I saw something on TV the night before last showing that it works on jungle crows.

[IkemenTommy]

Fighting noise with noise... Just one more layer to the deafening roar that is Japan.

Any way of driving those annoying uyoks away?

[james]

Any way of driving those annoying uyoks away?

napalm?