The new ‘Mosquito’ sonic deterrent to repel teenagers
Welshman Invents Device To Repel Teens
A device, called the Mosquito, emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that can be heard by people younger than 20 and almost nobody older than 30. The sound is designed to so irritate young people, so that after a few minutes, they cannot stand it and go away. It works because the body’s ability to detect the Sonic Deterrent’s frequency, diminishes after 20, adults are completely immune.
It sounds to youngsters like a demented insect or a very badly-played violin. It annoys teenagers so intensely they have to clutch their ears. Eventually they can stand it no longer and have to move on. So far the device has only been tested in one place – the local Spar in Barry (a great place to find hoards of chavs). According to the shop owner the results were instantaneous and there are now no layabouts to be found.
Howard Stapleton, a businessman and former electronics apprentice at British Aerospace, who was sick of youths hanging around outside his shop, came up with the idea. Police are backing the Sonic Teenager Deterrent, nicknamed the Mosquito because of its sound.
The £622 black box, which can be attached to the outside wall of shops, offices and homes, sends out 80-decibel bursts of pulsing sounds at up to 16khz.
Working in his bedroom in Merthyr Tydfil, and using his four children as guinea pigs, he came up with a prototype of his device and asked the local shop to test it.
‘I got it so that only my kids hated it and my fiancée and I were completely unperturbed, ‘he said.’ We put up the prototype outside the store and almost immediately people stopped congregating.
‘The beauty of it is that the noise does not have to be loud, just pitched at the right level which affects teenagers.’
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