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The "Mosquito" noisemaker is removed from near my neighborhood due to NYRA activities...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/06/AR2010100602792.html?hpid=dynamiclead
Dave Moss, director of development and operations at the National Youth Rights Association, said that at 28, he expected to be too old to hear anything when he stopped at the Gallery Place station on his way to a nearby synagogue. The device, according to its distributor, Moving Sound Technologies, emits a tone set at 17.5 kilohertz, the high end of the hearing range for 13- to 25-year-olds.
But there he was at 28 and there the sound was, in his ears: a headache-inducing tone that has made some teenagers, at least those who could hear it, move right along.
"It was a very high-pitched, dull but annoying series of beeps," Moss said. "I can see how it works. I would not have wanted to be there for a long period of time."
Moss and several other people from the youth organization - whose motto is "Live Free, Start Young" - then filed complaints with the city.
But there he was at 28 and there the sound was, in his ears: a headache-inducing tone that has made some teenagers, at least those who could hear it, move right along.
"It was a very high-pitched, dull but annoying series of beeps," Moss said. "I can see how it works. I would not have wanted to be there for a long period of time."
Moss and several other people from the youth organization - whose motto is "Live Free, Start Young" - then filed complaints with the city.
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