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FRIDAY, DEC 2, 2005| 4 comments

Buzz off! â€˜Mosquitoâ€™ aims to drive away teens

Teen repellent: inventor Howard Stapleton with the "small and annoying" Mosquito device. Photo: The New York Times

LONDON - A Welsh inventor claims to have found the perfect solution to rowdy youngsters â€” noise.

Howard Stapleton says his device, the â€œMosquito,â€ emits an uncomfortable high-pitched ultrasonic sound that can be heard by children and teenagers but almost no one over 30.

It has successfully driven away noisy teens from a grocery store in the Welsh town of Barry and a shop in Stapletonâ€™s home town Merthyr Tydfil, making smoking, lounging and foul-mouthed youths a thing of the past.

The ability to hear high frequencies deteriorates with age, but some adults might still be able to hear the Mosquito. No one except young troublemakers appears annoyed, however. ...

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3/19/06 4:03 PM

Tom Cobbly

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I bought one from this website. www.teenrepel.co.uk

12/2/05 10:25 AM

ENGINEER

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"ability to hear high frequencies deteriorates with age"
In the book "Polar Express"
(Tom Hanks recent movie version,too)
being able to hear the 'tinkle' of a little silver bell indicated that
you had the "Christmas spirit"...
Maybe Scrooge was just auditorially challenged?

MARK 7:16" If any man have ears to hear, let him hear."

12/2/05 8:38 AM

rob kelley

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When will the Anti-Noise begin???? : )

12/2/05 7:06 AM

Daniel Lee Ford

| Spring Arbor, Mich.

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As the
"noise"
???-music-???

of most teens is
designed to drive away oldsters
this seems fair.
Just call this 'bug-rap'

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