Buzz off ‘mosquito’ haters
Today, instead of choking on delectable European delicacies while reading a letter in The Press I just simply laughed out loud at Angela Heaver’s rant against ‘mosquito’ devices, ironically named as they prevent far more harmful insects (children) from disrupting the rest of the world by dispersing them, as they can’t handle the frequency of the noise, which once again reeks of nicey-nicey lefty tolerance.
If I had a shop and my customers were constantly scared away by gangs of spotty Chantelle impregnators clad in Kappa, that were costing me money, then my first reaction wouldn’t be to turn on an electrical device and hope they went away; though if an electrical device were the only option, then head shaving and a wet sponge (unless my name was Percy!) would be my chosen method of removing these pubescent parasites. I mean… the concept of the ‘mosquito’ isn’t even a new thing; it’s just that someone recently had a brainwave and worked out that if you play something other than 50Cent outside your shop then the kids might bugger off elsewhere. If only shopkeepers had worked this out when I was a teenager in the early 1980’s. Simply playing George Michael records would have cleared a shop doorway far quicker than Giorgious could empty a public toilet full of diarrhoea ridden bricklayers today!
Angela Heaver went on to say that she had seen “obviously upset children outside shops with a mum who seemed equally perplexed by their child’s emotional state” What she neglected to say is that she lives in The Groves area, where it is quite normal for children to be ‘out of it’, which could explain her next observation that her 16-year-old nephew had been hearing strange noises that made him feel like his head was going to explode and he was having trouble sleeping. That isn’t the mosquito love, it’s called drugs! I started to giggle even more girlishly when she said her own 17-year-old son heard the same sounds when he went round to his cousins. Maybe you should stop them from hanging around together Angela? Either that or buy them some decent gear!
Mosquito devices are brilliant. For a start, who likes to see kids in shops? Absolutely no-one, and anything that keeps the little gits away from them is to be recommended.
At the end of the day kids, don’t complain about being under-25 and having irritating noises in your ear all the time. One day you too may shack up with a woman and then you’ll understand!
At least with the mosquito the battery might run out before you die!
See you soon…
February 19th, 2008 at 01:44 pm
I think the mosquitos are a bit ambiguous in who they target, I do think however the police should be given more powers in moving these kids on.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
I think the mosquito is a bloody great device…if the people it’s aimed at don’t like the noise you move on - that’s the point! I’d love one outside my local shops…stop the nasty little fookers hanging around spitting and menacing anyone going in for a pint of milk. I’m also the mother of a child, but i’m responsible enough to not let him hang around shopping malls and the local corner store, so if he does hear it in passing, it’s temporary. Much the same as temporary noise from the men who drill the roads, the building site at the end of the street and the train track at the end of the road…
Sorry if that’s not PC…but actually i’m sick of reading about families without fathers simply because they tried to stop herds of bored kids from vandalising something…I had a bunch of these kids threaten to cut my throat when I was 9 months pregnant and it was not a pleasant experience. The little fooker who made the threat wouldn’t have done it if he wasn’t hanging out in a pack with nothing else to do…but throw fireworks…which is what I told him to stop doing in the first place! Feck ‘em - turn up the frequency!
April 7th, 2008 at 07:36 pm
Hello,
You didn’t read my letter too well did you?
I moved to The Groves less than a year ago (Wiggington Road), my ‘rant’ was about a village in West Sussex, does your comment still hold water? I like living in The Groves, people here have character, they talk to me, and are friendly.
I am still concerned that so called Mosquito alarms have damaging effects on SMALL babies/children, the parents I was refering to are what you would no doubt label influential, affluent or something else cleverly ripped from a GCSE essay.
My DAUGHTER (not son, as was mis-printed) is a very well educated and responsible now 18 yr old with plans for her own business after college. She does not ‘hang out’, never has. She works volutary 12 hours a week and is a great role model for the children she is Youth Leader for (CRB checked AND qualified)
My Nephew, from Sussex, has since been diagnosed with an umrelated medical disorder… he too is a top grade, reliable student who has to live with the degrading pre-conceptions of youth banded around by such as yourself.
The mosquito alarm that bothered him 24 hours a day was on a neighbours house, in a quiet cul-de-sac, next to a toddlers play area. No shops, no teens, no Burberry/Kappa or clearasil . The neighbour didn’t want teeny Toddlers near his fence. That is a violation of the childs human rights.
I do not have issue with the use of the alarms, as clearly stated in my original letter, my kids won’t be found ‘loitering’ so TURN ‘em UP as Linz says, I do have issue with them being placed anywhere, turned on all the time and, as such, presuming all youth to be troublesome. That was the point of my letter.
As a responsible parent, who has given more than 18 years to bringing up equally responsible kids, I’m tired of having my Teenagers put in the frame as ‘typical’. Hence, partially, my ‘hating’ mosquito alarms. They discriminate and harm by defamation of character.
When My partner and I chose to have a family, we took the onus seriously. We have 3 great kids, of whom I am utterly proud of.
Anti-social kids on the streets are their parents ‘fault/responsibility’ It’s about time these parents were wholey blamed, tagged and forced to admit a kid is for life, not just for benefits. Justice needs to be served for the youngsters who are not drug taking, hoodie wearing, cider drinking loosers.
April 7th, 2008 at 08:18 pm
“The neighbour didn’t want teeny Toddlers near his fence. That is a violation of the childs human rights.”
You have highlighted one of my biggest bugbears - that is - the concept that children have “rights”
Children have a right to be fed, educated, looked after properly and not abused. They get “proper” rights when they become adults just like we did. It’s called growing up.
Are you seriously suggesting that the child’s right to be on or near private property overrides the landowners right to protect his domain?
April 10th, 2008 at 07:51 pm
A child of 4 has the right to play in a council owned Play Area, designed for toddlers and their carers, without having an adult subject them to a high pitched electronic device. A noise which unduly upsets them and is abusive, a violation of the childs right. As you point out, children have the right to expect adults to look after and treat them properly, a child is not being treated properly when an adult uses methods which esentially label the child as vermin. The home owner concerned bought a house next to an area designed for small children, he’s a daft grummpy!