General / Off-Topic The Mosquito - a discriminatory device?

If you're wondering what it is, it is a device that produces a high-pitched sound which only the youth can hear. It is made to be installed in area where teenagers would hang out in order to prevent crime, or does it really prevent crime?

Hundreds of thousands of them have been installed around many countries, deliberately designed to target the young ear and shop owners, school owners, etcetera, continue to buy them. What does this say about our society? If this device was targeting the elderly, a different race or colour, there would be upfall about it. But with all the stereotypes that teenagers are vandals and problem-causers, along with most of the leaders being elderly, there's little to no chance that these devices will be banned. It's like shooing away teens as if they were unwanted birds or pests, they're human beings, damn it!

Teenagers stand around and hang out. Why? Because the poor teenagers have nothing better to do and are not there to break the windows of a building, for God's sake! It's the kind of discrimination like in the 1960's when people though a dark man was a criminal man. Hell, maybe that's why many teenagers are rebellious.

About a week ago over here in Canada, an innocent teenage bystander was the very first, and I do say very first one to be arrested after a house fire. Why? Because he was a teenager. Fortunately, he was later proven Not Guilty in court. I am sorry for all this ridiculous ranting and raving, but I am terribly outraged.
 
Agreed.

What I find even more tragic is, when I ask those who tend to have these attitudes, what they did when they were teenagers, they all seem to claim they were some sort of wonderful kids who went to youth clubs!

Currently these things are legal here though their effect upon innocent children who may happen to live within ear shot of these thigns is another issue. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...een-vandals-investigation-noise-nuisance.html

The government is being typically ambivalent.

http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/security-equipment/mosquito-mk4-anti-loitering-device

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/jun/20/teenager-repellent-mosquito-banned-europe

http://www.civilrightsmovement.co.uk/mosquito-alarm-infringement-human-rights.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7240180.stm
 
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