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Nuisance teenagers will have to buzz off
A FUTURISTIC device which sends out an insufferably grating noise only audible to teenagers is coming to Reading...

Date
22 April 2007
Source
Reading Evening Post
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MOSQUITO ALARM PROPOSED IN NEW SCHEME TO CLEAN UP THE RIVERSIDE
An irritating alarm that only youngsters can hear is one of the counter-measures proposed to keep troublemakers away from Derby's Silk Mill and Cathedral Green...
Date 27 Sept 2007
Source Derbyshire Evening Telegraph
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Police bring Lawn oder
POLICE say the combination of a high-pitched alarm to scare off youths and extra patrols are helping drive away yobs from a busy row of shops...
Date 27 Sept 2007
SourceSwindon Advertiser
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Dispersal orders to continue
POLICE in Calne are applying to renew the town's dispersal order when it runs out at the end of September. The order means that police have the power to split up groups of youths loitering at The Pippin. Inspector Gavin Williams said: "There has been a huge drop in crime and anti social behaviour in the Calne area since this order was put in place...

Date 27 Sept 2007
Source Gazette & Herald
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Why gangs of youths buzz off when they hear the hum of a Mosquito
For years the hooded youths of Britain have been free to roam the country’s shopping streets. In the evenings and at the weekends they have loitered outside the shops of their choice...
Date
22 April 2007
Source
The Times Online
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Sound of silence
THE GIZMO: MosquitoTone ringtones.
NOW HEAR THIS: Who knew a high-pitched, hard-to-hear tone dubbed the Mosquito could cause such buzz?...

Date 18 April 2007
Source Phillidelphia Daily News
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A High-Tech Dinner Bell
Last summer, I wrote a story with Yuki Noguchi about the Mosquito ring tone--a high-pitched sound that teenagers can hear but their elders (most importantly, teachers and parents) cannot...
Date 12 April 2007
Source Washington Post
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