This is like if at coffee shops, bars, and strip joints us kids put up LOUD rap music.
Stop the ear splitting noise and give us the right to talk! WE HAVE TO BE SOCIAL SOMEWHERE!

Joe Jonas Lover WHY?!!! IT SHOWS JUST HOW SUCKISH BEING AN ADULT IS JUST LIKE BEING A KID IS!!! AND IT SHOWS JUST HOW STUPID ADULTS CAN BE OR EVEN....ARE

what is this about?

I've been thinking about this issue a lot since Ray made his post and I admit he has a good point. But I wasn't thinking about the kids so much as the location of these "mosquitos." I don't think they would be used outside in a bedroom community suburb where the houses are far apart with large lawns and a sidewalk in front. Not everyone can live there, I think these mosquitos are meant for where the city is mostly apartments and instead of lawns there are either apartment building lobbies, a busy street and restaurants, convience stores and other stores. Lot's of people like to live in town but the one thing that seems to be wrong if you live in a big city instead of a bedroom suburb and you have children, you have to look out for them twice as much, but eventually they become street-proofed and they spend time outside playing with their friends. They go to the park and play there, baseball, frisbee, tag, go to movies and just generally tear around. But then when you live in a city, there is nowhere for teenagers to go. They either go to someone's apartment and as Ray said they can make a lot of noise. Teenagers are rebellious and they want to get away from their parents and that's when you worry if they are drinking, doing drugs or other things. They don't want us looking over their shoulder and they resent the heck out of it if they think they are being supervised. But generally parents keep their eyes on their teens, it's not that hard to figure out where they go to meet their friends and generally they don't go too far. They like hanging around sometimes in the lobby or on the corner of the street or in an the food court of a small mall and we know their friend's parents telephone numbers. There just isn't that many places for teens to congregate, they don't play games anymore so they are either at someones house where you know an adult is or is going to be or they are at the food court etc. It just seems to me as a parent I'd rather have them gather close to home, which they generally do. But these mosquitos, all they do is drive teens further away and further away to places where we don't want them to be. Living in town is like anyplace else we like city living and we have children and these children grow up to be teenagers. If the store owners or mall owners or the superindentent of apartment buildings don't like them congregating outside the building or in the lobby, then that is just the price of doing business. They have to take the good and bad. I know there are problems, but I think it's better to deal with the non-social behaviours directly rather than use these mosquitos. If you tell a group of teenagers that they are getting out of line and enough people do it, they generally tone things down. It happens all the time. So do you call the police and have them swing by everyonce in awhile or have two or three parents tell them to knock it off rather than drive them away with these mosquitos. They are hard enough to keep track of already. It seems to me that these mosquitos makes that job a lot harder than it already is.

There are pleny of noise laws that many/not all teenagers fail to comly with whether it be in, in front of or around public places. Even after being asked in a polite manner to stop these noises many teenagers continue to do so to their enjoyment and to the headaches of many adults.
Unless someone can come up with a better solution to dispurse an intimidating crowd without endangering police or store keepers, whats the harm ?
We are all exposed to this sound and it causes no ill effect. If teenagers want to get rid of adults, all they need to do is crank up their rap or punk music, how ironic

I'm not sure I'm reading this correctly? What do they expect teens to do? Teens have a need to be with others of their own age! It's part of growing up. Yes sometimes they are noisy, but if they aren't being disruptive, I mean, don't you want your teen to be in a safe place or an unsafe place where there are no "mosquitos." This has got to be the stupidest idea ever.