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Pink Lights, Talking Cameras, and High-Pitched Squeals: The World's Weirdest Anti-Loitering Technologies
Do any of these annoying strategies actually work?
A city in the U.K. is considering whether to bathe teenage troublemakers in pools of harsh, pink light.
Officials in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, want to outfit their downtown commercial area with the special lights, typically used by beauticians to check out a person's skin quality. The idea is that these devices will reveal all the pimples and blemishes of teenage loiterers, who will then freak out under the communal judgment of their peers and scatter like cockroaches back to their homes.