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No source but pretty sure some "teenagers" in the UK launched a lawsuit and won. Councils and shopkeepers had to take these things down or face a serious risk o
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
No source but pretty sure some "teenagers" in the UK launched a
lawsuit and won. Councils and shopkeepers had to take these things
down or face a serious risk of being sued. Sound created to cause
distress this way is common assault.
- benj111 3y agoThere's an 'is it legal' link on the linked website which would suggest the opposite. I've come across them fairly recently.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoOOo interesting. Maybe it's one of those "decision pending" things and the people who took them down were, er... scared off by lawyers making noises. Of course the manufacturers would assert legality. With a quick read it seems to me a noise, even if intended to cause distress would not likely be assault, but might be injury to the person above a certain high SPL level of decibels. The more obvious thing I see is a public nuisance angle. Even if the police wouldn't touch it, local authorities could, as an environmental health issue.