The Committee on Culture, Science and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe prepared a report stating that this device violates many articles of both the European Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and should be banned in Europe, because it is often "painful" and causes "degrading and discriminatory consequences for young people"
Some of these may be used to scare off birds?
Such devices normally operate well above the hearing limit of even a baby. But it is possible that a malfunctioning rodent scarer is the source of the noise.
I haven't heard anything when I've been there and my hearing is almost perfect.
Is it not just a hum off the OHLE?
Is it not just a hum off the OHLE?
I haven't heard that myself, but . . . .. . . . . . the speakers at Kings + emit a loud high pitched squeal which is very painful.
There is still a dummy owl perched high up in the concourse of Kings Cross, near the gate to Platform 4.A company I used to work for installed one to get rid of pigeons - plus it was shaped like an owl for added effect.
I haven't heard that myself, but . . . .There is still a dummy owl perched high up in the concourse of Kings Cross, near the gate to Platform 4.
Any connection?
There is one in Waverley on the parapet of the building that houses the left luggage place. I had assumed that it was some bit of lost property that they put up their for a laugh, but now I am wondering.
Dummy above lost property, box above travel centre makes a clicking noise to my (young) ears!
Well, this is straying further from 'mosquito devices' but it seems that false owls in stations and elsewhere have been installed as pigeon deterrents, with doubtful success! See here.. . . . Can't remember what it's actually for, mind.
Well, this is straying further from 'mosquito devices' but it seems that false owls in stations and elsewhere have been installed as pigeon deterrents, with doubtful success! See here.
I bet you never knew that the UK had a Pigeon Control Resource Centre.
[Anyway, if nothing else, it makes another idea for an unusual Christmas gift]
There is still a dummy owl perched high up in the concourse of Kings Cross, near the gate to Platform 4.
Any connection?
Perhaps there's more than one at Kings Cross then, there's definitely one above the gates in front of Plat 4.Nah, bit further north than that. Not sure if it had much effect on the pigeons.
In what way could anyone in their mid twenties or under be described as ''riff-raff?''