Don’t like teenagers?
Then abuse their rights. They do it in England, so it must be okay.
Laugh now, but this is the future. But when they come for your rights, it won’t be so funny then will it?
Our civil rights are colliding with technology. This will be a slippery slope. The sound from this device doesn’t harm people, at least in the short term. So is it acceptable to harass people with technology? The case could be made that a stun gun doesn’t harm people. But if you stun someone who is not attacking you I would bet you would be charged with assault.
Where should the line be drawn?
QUEENS (CBS) Teenagers who hang out inside one apartment building in Jamaica, Queens are getting an earful these days.
A new security device called “The Mosquito” has been installed in the lobby of a building on 170th St. where there have been chronic problems with noisy teens.
The wall-mounted device emits a high-frequency screech that can only be heard by people aged 13 to 25. Most older people cannot hear it.
“It sounds like when you put a microphone close to the TV,” said Jerry Brown, one of the younger residents, who admits the noise bothers him “a little bit.”
The building superintendent said the mosquito has kept the lobby free of loitering teenagers, so far.
But the teens in Brit are rude dogs.
I don’t know about England, but as far as I know in America, there is no right to hang out inside privately-owned apartment building lobbies.