Tokyo ward's buzzing plan fails to repel vandals

Tokyo ward's buzzing plan fails to repel vandals

A novel attempt to discourage rowdy youths from loitering in a Tokyo park created quite a buzz--literally--but will be stopped because it proved less effective than having security guards patrol the park.

Last May, the Adachi Ward Office installed a device that emits a high-frequency sound audible only to young people in a park that had been regularly vandalized. The noise, similar to the hum made by mosquitoes, was expected to irritate troublemakers hanging out at Kitashikahama Park late at night and force them to go elsewhere.

The ward installed the device on the wall of the park's management office and put it into operation between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. But just a month after the machine was installed, a women's toilet in the park was vandalized.

http://www.yomiuri.c...307TDY02303.htm

I remember reading someplace else cured the problem of too many youths hanging around for too long by playing Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Engelbert Humperdinck etc.

Adachi-ku, Kitashikahama Park - Despite living in Tokyo for over 30 years, I had to take a map and to see where this place is located, Adachi-ku is a district with many low-income people at the outer northeast corner of Tokyo.

Vandalism is rare in Tokyo or elsewhere in all Japan, I don't remember any public park here in my area (Shinagawa-district - not so far away located fom Tokyo city center) which was destroyed by hooligans. I never see hooligans in my area.

Japanese usually do not things, which are not profitable and there is a lot of police around day and night. Theft in a department store makes sense for some of them, or driving around with bikes disturbing people during night, but to damage things without any profit for doing that 'work' is surely not the way to go for most Japanese youth in case they think life is boring, let's do some nonsense.

I ask myself, what you can destroy for 3 million yen in a public park in a cheap housing area...
There is nothing there but a simple toilet, a water-pipe, some trees, some few places to sit down, some ordinary street-lights, also some homeless, either drunk or collecting garbage etc. ... It's not dangerous to go to a public park even during late night.

Parks which are offering a good quality and are kept in good shape by regular maintenance are usually closed during night with gates, there are fences and it is not easy to enter there and to take something away or to destroy anything due to CCTV cover and regular checks by guards and police during night.

lol, I thought they played Classical music? Watch any kids stick around when you start Bach or Mozart...,

It works, I've seen kids leaving after hanging around 7-11 for a while when they started playing 4 seasons.