Don't get me wrong. I think teenagers are great. I was a teenager once. But every so often you hear or read about shopkeepers who complain about "teenage youths" gathering near their business and chasing their customers away.
It seems there's a high-tech solution to this earth-shaking crisis. Mind you, I'm not endorsing this invention. It's just that, when I read this in the NY Times, I laughed so hard I scared the cat.
What's the Buzz? Rowdy Teenagers Don't Want to Hear It
By SARAH LYALL
BARRY, Wales - Though he did not know it at the time, the idea came to Howard Stapleton when he was 12 and visiting a factory with his father, a manufacturing executive in London. Opening the door to a room where workers were using high-frequency welding equipment, he found he could not bear to go inside.
"The noise!" he complained.
"What noise?" the grownups asked.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/29/international/europe/29repellent.html?pagewanted=print 
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