Discouraging nuisance under 25's hanging about

[magmcc]

Has anyone seen in "The Gadget Show" on Monday 6/2/06 a gadget which produces a noise so unpleasant to under 25 year olds (because their hearing is at its keenest) from hovering about one's property and being a nuisance. It is called the "Mosquito". On checking the Website for it I find it is about �500 so way out of my reach - does anyone know of a similar cheaper gadget?

[woofgang]

Well Police forces have found that playing classical music helps, also spraying Jeyes fluid!!

I am a bit surprised about the keeness of U/25's hearing, I would have thought that they would have been deaf by then!

[magmcc]

Thanks woofgang but this is not what I was looking for.

[WendyS]

Yes, classical music will do the trick, or even better a recording of some good old fashioned hymns. Perhaps you could hire some Jehovahs Witnesses to pay the area a visit too. Like woofgang, I've also read that the smell of Jeyes fluid is very unpleasant. I used it to try and kill some lichen on my patio and couldn't venture into the garden for a week! As for the gadget, I've no idea what it might be but I shall keep an eye on this thread because if somebody comes up with a cheaper option I'll be out there buying one too.

[magmcc]

'In A Pickle' Thanks for your reply but as it was included in the "Gadget Show" on Channel 5 TV it must be O.K. and be within the rules and regulations we live by these days.

'Wendy' Thank-you too for your input. The Jeyes Fluid sounds worth a try - the music might upset the neighbours more than the teenagers hence the need for it to only affect a certain age group.

[joko]

my uncle used to get stink bombs and a made a sort of pea shooter out of a tube and would shoot them at the wall near where they were standing - they soon left!

[Scarlett]

Could you have a word with your friendly local bobby on the beat (HAHAHAHA!) ?

Okay, sarcasm aside, I have this problem, and I told the police. They then look out for the loutering youths and move them on everytime they walk past. They soon realise that they are going to get grief if they stand in that place, so they find somewhere else to go. If they are making your life miserable, maybe your local councillor can help?

[magmcc]

Thanks too to Joko and Scarlett for answering. Most of these things have been tried already - the question is really for my son who lives in a small village in Devon where even there the growing up brats are becoming 'townie type' horrors. I have more access to the computer than my son so volunteered to try and I know he just wants a cheaper version of this perfect seeming "Mosquito" which will bother no-one but the miscreants. I, personally, think this is so new an invention the Chinese or Korean makers won't have had time to copy it and do a cheaper version but hoped I was wrong.

[majjan]

You could ask them for help with some unpleasant tasks, in my experience kids disappear in an instant 'help' or 'work 'is mentioned!!

[morg_monster]

First thing I thought when I heard about this is that the noise would annoy the kids so much that they'd come back that night and put a brick through your front window.

Also it seems unfair that it tars all under 25s with the same brush - surely its mostly kids - I don't know many over 18 year olds who have the time to hang around outside other peoples' houses! I pity your son's paper boy and any other innocent callers to his home aged under 25! (I am sympathetic to his plight though - just playing devil's advocate!)

[Fat Boy]

Just curious:

How does this device know which under-25yr olds to annoy? (Or are signs included to warn young people not to walk past the house?)

If it's loud enough to annoy townie-type terrorists what happens to the neighbours? (Obviously this would not be a problem if there are only old / deaf people next door)

How would any neighbours' pets (e.g. dogs being taken past the house for a walk) feel about things?

Assuming it's only people over the age of 25 that want to use it, how would they know it was working?

At �500, you don't think that maybe it's perhaps a con..?

[Frankie Babe]

LOL fatboy!! :o) Of course, a product marketed to the over 25s that can only be heard by the under 25s. Kings new clothes anyone??

[joko]

i don't recall my ears suddenly becoming crap on my 25th birthday.

human ears deteriorate over time, years, not just at a certain age.

everyone is different, some have keen hearing well into old age, some lose it a childhood.

hearing is subject to how the ears have been treated - loud noise and music will affect ears but what about those that don't have exposure to that?

this sounds like a con or at least something that cannot work.

why not ask this again in science and see if any of the brainiacs can verify that human hearing suddenly gets bad at 25?