Dan Roth - Pastor of Disaster

There's been debate over the years as to whether or not those ultrasonic flea repellents or mosquito repellents really work. Well, here's a repellent that works for sure... but it works on teenagers and children (and many young-to-middle-aged adults too).

Here's a quote from the article:
The device, called the Mosquito ("It's small and annoying," Stapleton said), emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that, he said, can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30. The sound is designed to so irritate young people that after several minutes, they cannot stand it and go away."

Read more here

I have to admire the ingenuity of this guy, and there's times I'd like to have one, given that in our urban neighborhood we have given teens permission to sit on our steps, only to be repayed by breaking our outdoor lights and egging our house.

However, there's something very wrong about the idea of a device that pushes youth away because we find them inconvenient. Imagine the uproar if someone created one of these to keep senior citizens away from a public place!

[Thanks to starkiller for passing this along.]