We now have a weapon against teenagers. Can you hear it? [News]
It’s the Mosquito tone– a high pitched screech that some adults are using to keep kids off their lawn and some teenagers are using as a ringtone that adults mostly can’t hear. It’s pretty similar to the high pitched noise a television makes when it’s on, only louder.
Click here to hear it / download it or click on the player below. At first I couldn’t hear it, but then i turned the volume on my computer all the way up– and I thought my head was going to fucking explode. So take that as a warning.
From Fox’s story on the Mosquito being used to keep teens from loitering:
The high-frequency sound has been likened to fingernails dragged across a chalkboard or a pesky mosquito buzzing in your ear. It can be heard by most people in their teens and early 20s who still have sensitive hair cells in their inner ears. Whether you can hear the noise depends on how much your hearing has deteriorated — how loud you blast your iPod, for example, could potentially affect your ability to detect it.
“It’s horrible, loud and irritating,” said, Eddie Holder, 15, who sprinted from his apartment for school one morning covering one ear with his hand to block out the noise. The device was installed outside the building to drive away loiterers. “I have to hurry out of the building because it’s so annoying. It’s this screeching sound that you have to get away from, or it will drive you crazy.”
Stupid kids. They shouldn’t be loitering anyway. They should be off wrecking their cars and getting knocked up and doing drugs and getting crabs and listening to 50 Cent or whatever kids do these days.
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Comment by delsydsoftware on 24 April 2008:
Unfortunately, I can hear this loud and clear at low volumes, and I’m 30. I can listen to that mp3 for about 10 seconds before I have to turn it off—it’s almost painful. I’ve always had very good high-frequency hearing, to the point where I could tell if a CRT monitor or television was turned on within 75-100 feet, just from the high-pitched whine it makes. Even a ruptured left eardrum didn’t kill my high frequency hearing, so I guess I’m stuck with it.
Comment by cranberryzero on 24 April 2008:
LMAO I just got home and played this through my speakers (before when I could hear it, it was only through headphones) and couldn’t hear a thing. However my dog went absolutely apeshit crazy and ran slam into my wife’s computer, turning it off. I guess I won’t do that again.