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The annoying version of that is in Roma St train station in Brisbane, Australia, they play a super high-pitched noise -- the theory is only young people can hea
by girvo 12y ago
The annoying version of that is in Roma St train station in Brisbane, Australia, they play a super high-pitched noise -- the theory is only young people can hear it, and after a while it starts to really annoy. The issue with it, is if you have good hearing and aren't a young "hoodlum" it'll drive you crazy if you're hanging around having a smoke, or meeting friends. I'm unsure if it's still there, it was a couple years ago now.
- dorian-graph 12y agoI'm youngish and can't remember having heard it recently at Roma St. I know of one shopping centre in Logan that plays classical music at the entrances as the previous poster mentioned.
- tacticus 12y agoGotta love queensland. The state that made it illegal to go have coffee with two friends without a police permit.
- vince_refiti 12y agoOnly if you and your friends are known members of criminal gangs.
- girvo 12y agoI've got no sympathy for the bikie gangs, they made their beds and they should lie in them. But, we Queenslanders should not forgot our history of police power overreach and corruption. Governments give up powers so rarely, they only expand them. I worry about these laws a lot...
- Margh 12y agoAre you sure that's not a bird repellant? Several bars (eg. Pig and Whistle on Eagle St.) around the city have these, very effective at driving away attractive young people with good hearing; birds not so much.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoIt's called a Mosquito device. It's specifically aimed at getting rid of young people. It's a pernicious form of ageism.
- emiliobumachar 12y agoThis seems like it could bother babies a lot, without their parents knowing what exactly is wrong...
- dnautics 12y agoDefinitely the case at a Harris teeter in Arlington Virginia, it was on the edge of my hearing so I could identify it... Saw a lot of bewildered parents with upset babies.