Articles labeled: teenagers

A unique device designed to prevent teenagers from loitering is causing quite a stir. The “Mosquito” emits a high pitch frequency that only teenagers and young adults can hear. Does it work on younger children, too? Seems like a great way to get our kids out of the house and outside to play…

The high-frequency sound has been likened to fingernails dragged across a chalkboard or a pesky mosquito buzzing in your ear. It can be heard by most people in their teens and early 20s who still have sensitive hair cells in their inner ears. Whether you can hear the noise depends on how much your hearing has deteriorated — how loud you blast your iPod, for example, could potentially affect your ability to detect it.

The device has already roiled civil liberties groups in countries where it’s already in use, including England, Australia and Scotland. England’s government-appointed Children’s Commission proposed a ban. They describe it as a weapon that infringes on the basic rights of young people, and claim it could even have unknown long-term health effects.

Talk about kicking a man when he’s down. Two teens in Granite City, Illinois, have pleaded guilty to fatally beating a homeless man after he refused to buy them beer.

Seventeen-year-old Joseph Lee Raines and 18-year-old Brandon Carol Bouck entered their pleas Thursday in Madison County court. In exchange, prosecutors dropped first-degree murder charges.

Assistant State’s Attorney Susan Jensen says testimony would have shown the defendants told a friend about punching and kicking Thomas Muffler in October.

Jensen says Muffler had refused to buy the teens beer. After the beating, the teens stole a 24-ounce can of beer from Muffler.

Authorities say Muffler suffered broken ribs that penetrated a lung.

A group of teenage boys in Redlands, California, have been arrested on suspicion of raping two girls, ages 14 and 15, who they lured back to a house with a promise of alcohol.

Redlands police spokesman Carl Baker said the girls, ages 14 and 15, told investigators they were walking home at about 5 p.m. Friday when they came across a group of teenage boys.

They asked the girls if they wanted to drink with them, which they did, Baker said.

“The next thing you know, one of the boys was taking off their pants and sexually assaulting them,” Baker said.

After the boys argued, Baker said, two of them walked the girls home.

But when they got to the home of one of the girls, they assaulted them again, Baker said.

The inner old man in us at first said, “You get those little skateboarding punks, officer!” But then we read the “deets”, as the cool kids say, and checked out the video of the incident that recently surfaced on YouTube, and it seems he might have stepped a bit over the line:

The video shows Officer Salvatore Rivieri approach the kids at the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, the area where they apparently were skateboarding. The kids tell Rivieri they didn’t know they couldn’t skateboard there.

“You back-talk me, I’m not your father,” Rivieri says. “You hear me? I’m not your father. You give that attitude to your father. You give it to me, I’ll smack you upside the head. Shut your mouth, I’m talking.”

In the video, after Rivieri pushes the kid on the ground, he takes his skateboard and puts it in his patrol vehicle.

The video in question is below: