Rail Operator's Use of Sound Device 'Stupid'

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THE inventor of a device criticised as an "ultrasonic weapon" has attacked a company using it and called it "stupid" for deploying it at a railway station. Howard Stapleton, who created the "mosquito" device which emits a high-pitched sound which causes discomfort to children, said First Great Western had been wrong to use the device constantly at Teignmouth station in South Devon. The rail operator said it will not activate the device when passengers are travelling, after complaints from children getting to school by train.

But the company said it would continue to use it late at night, when the station was most at risk from vandalism.

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Rail Operator's Use of Sound Device 'Stupid'

But Mr Stapleton defended the machine, saying it was wrong to call it a "weapon", after local MPs calle...

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