The Mosquito

[GarfieldLeChat]

there is antoher thread on this btw

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=162768

perhaps they should be merged?

 

[Yossarian]

With these Mosquito things around, it's no surprise so many kids are fond of playing crappy R&B through tinny phone speakers on public transport - they're getting revenge!

 

[toggle]

probably worth using in bursts i.e. if the little shits start hanging about.
Shop keepers have the right to go about the business as customers do.
with out a bunch of bored teenagers being a pain.
"buy us fags mate etc etc"
go away please isn't really going to work

A shopkeeper may be bothered by kids hanging about outside their shop, doesn't give them the right to make ME feel sick and hurt my kids when we walk past.

 

[El Jefe]

Sorry, posted this on the other thread: kids have been recording the noise on their phones and playing it in class, causing mayhem.

Which is fucking great IMO

 

[Orang Utan]

Did anyone look at the simulation on the BBC page?
I'm 34 and I could hear it, yet the teenagers don't even budge

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Do they do a hand held version?

Perhaps a cheap disposable one with an adhesive backing that you could leave under the seats of buses, or slap onto the forehead of a particularly troublesome youth.

 

[El Jefe]

Did anyone look at the simulation on the BBC page?
I'm 34 and I could hear it, yet the teenagers don't even budge

That's cos kids today are just lazy. They'd rather endure brainsplitting sonic attack than shift their arses.

etc

 

[Brainaddict]

I don't always agree with garf but he's hit the nail on the head this time. And for those who think this is 'liberal whinging' or something, his stance is nothing to do with a 'liberal' attitude - it's to do with looking at the dynamics of our society and understanding that we've created a certain kind of society that doesn't actually hang together at all, and now we're paying for it - and we want to punish the kids for it.

 

[fractionMan]

If we could just round all these troublemaking kids up, then force them to watch images of violence and troublemaking while being made physically sick, thus conditioning them to consider these things bad, we could train them to dislike violence and ensure that they behaved themselves.

I think that combined with the classical music you're onto something here.

 

[Yossarian]

Sorry, posted this on the other thread: kids have been recording the noise on their phones and playing it in class, causing mayhem.

Which is fucking great IMO

There's probably already some teen inventor, enraged by the Mosquito, who's working on some low-intensity version of the Brown Noise aimed at rattling the prune-loosened bowels of the over-50s...

 

[El Jefe]

There's probably already some teen inventor, enraged by the Mosquito, who's working on some low-intensity version of the Brown Noise aimed at rattling the prune-loosened bowels over the over-50s...

One can only hope so.

 

[gabi]

I remember a fuss about this a coupla years ago. They also mentioned that there was some other device (a light of sorts) in development that highlighted acne on teenagers' faces... clever...

ah here we go, found a link, from the daily mail no less...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=416679&in_page_id=1770

 

[Andy the Don]

There's probably already some teen inventor, enraged by the Mosquito, who's working on some low-intensity version of the Brown Noise aimed at rattling the prune-loosened bowels over the over-50s...

Yes because the over 50's are responsible for anti-social behaviour. They are actually most likely to be on the receiving end of anti-social behaviour. You moan about how the hard time the youth have in the UK. But they have it easy compared to the over 50's. I do not see any commissioner for the over 50's nor are Liberty campaigning about their right to live a peaceful existence.

 

[Gromit]

The owner can discriminate between guilty and innocent and switches it on or off as needed.
The latest model has a remote control.

There are only 3500 units out there so I presume the only people who have stumped up cash for them are those who have had real problems.

People are making sound like the owners are inflicting a long and painful torture on kids. But instead kids (innocent or guilty) move away due to minor annoyance. The real question is, is it right to move someone on from a public space regardless of the means used? The police can't do it effectively to reduce anti social behaviour. Is it any wonder vigilantism occurs. I'd prefer this relatively harmless form of vigilantism to be availble than for people to take the law into their own hands in more extreme ways.

 

[chymaera]

The real question is, is it right to move someone on from a public space regardless of the means used? .

Obstructing a pavement is an offence. It needs no extra law to disperse any group of people reguardless of their age.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Obstructing a pavement is an offence. It needs no extra law to disperse any group of people reguardless of their age.

as is loitering with intent however using existing laws measures doesn't grab headlines in the same way as government plans new intitative...

 

[El Jefe]

Yes because the over 50's are responsible for anti-social behaviour. They are actually most likely to be on the receiving end of anti-social behaviour. You moan about how the hard time the youth have in the UK. But they have it easy compared to the over 50's. I do not see any commissioner for the over 50's nor are Liberty campaigning about their right to live a peaceful existence.

You posted that for a laugh didn't you?

yes, the rights of the over-50s are TOTALLY unrepresented.
Apart from, oh yeh, 90% of fucking MPs, directors, magistrates, judges, lawyers, councillors etc etc etc etc

 

[KeyboardJockey]

as is loitering with intent however using existing laws measures doesn't grab headlines in the same way as government plans new intitative...

Which is why we currently have so many potentially oppressive laws put in place by NL just waiting to be exploited by an extremist govt in the future.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Which is why we currently have so many potentially oppressive laws put in place by NL just waiting to be exploited by an extremist govt in the future.

why wait for a futrue extremist government the current extremeist govenrment is doing a pretyy sucessful job of fucking things about...

 

[KeyboardJockey]

why wait for a futrue extremist government the current extremeist govenrment is doing a pretyy sucessful job of fucking things about...

This is nothing compared with what a future extremist govt will do with NL's hasty written tabloid driven legisilative programme.

 

[likesfish]

You posted that for a laugh didn't you?

yes, the rights of the over-50s are TOTALLY unrepresented.
Apart from, oh yeh, 90% of fucking MPs, directors, magistrates, judges, lawyers, councillors etc etc etc etc

except there not the ones running small corner shops being driven demented by a band of little yobs

 

[El Jefe]

except there not the ones running small corner shops being driven demented by a band of little yobs

That's not what Andy The Don's point was. he was talking about commissioners for older people, Liberty etc. Which is a different issue.

So please read posts properly

 

[girasol]

To me the most surprising thing about this when I heard it on the radio was that there's a range of sounds only under 20s can hear! I didn't know that...

Might explain my son's sometimes terrible taste in music (i.e. Busted)

Anyone mention this noise is disturbing the sleep of children who live nearby the devices? Still, there might be a workaround it. When they played it on the radio all I could hear was a very subtle clicking noise.

 

[nino_savatte]

What a fantastic invention they are. Perhaps you can tweak them to target everyone up to thirty, and then use lower frequencies to eliminate the over-sixties. Or perhaps they could even be modified to disperse hippies.

...or doorstepping politicians; Jehovah's Witness and other G*d botherers; and bailiffs.

 

[brasicritique]

why dont we all go out with branding kits and brand all these yougsters directly on the forehead