Scare tactics deplored

RECENTLY while talking to a friend outside a shopping centre in Cork I heard an extremely high-pitched noise being emitted in pulses.

Scare tactics deplored
Mon, 24 Dec, 2007 - 00:00
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My friend explained that the noise was a ‘silent ringtone’ — a frequency that can be heard only by people under 25.

Apparently it is used to keep young people away.

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