Mosquito alarm on our street VERY irritating

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Our street is a very quiet street, we don't have any antisocial problems and it's a family area with well behaved kids and a primary school at the end of the road.
One of the houses about half way between my house and the school has installed one of those really annoying mosquito alarms and I cannot even fathom why! As far as I am aware, they're one of the only elderly couples on the street.
Having the school at the end of the street, there's a lot of school run traffic along the street and kids cringe away from the sound every morning and afternoon, even crossing the road to try and avoid it.
I'm 25 and I can hear it, it's ear splitting. I have to walk past it at least 4 times a day because of the school run and it's really beginning to cheese me off.
AIBU? Is there anything I can do about it?

I didn't even know these existed! Sounds horrendous! I'd knock and politely let them know what effect it's having.

Oh God YANBU at all.

A shop on a railway station concourse I used to use had one of these installed, set to go off outside 'working hours'. I.e. it was on from about 6pm-8.30am the next morning.

What fun it was, waiting in the cold and dark on a station platform at 6.05am for a delayed train listening to BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP minute after minute after sodding minute.

Agree with a PP that they should be banned.

I really think you may be leaping to conclusions about what the alarm is for, unless you have spotted a box labelled 'hoodie wearers begone' or something fixed to the side of their house.

If they are elderly, and the house is not on a corner/by a bus stop or somewhere where 'youths' are likely to hang around, I would say it is much more likely to have been bought as a cat repellent (do they have a well-tended looking garden?). I know that doesn't make it any less annoying, but they probably do not realise that people (of any age) rather than cats can hear it at all, so the best thing to do is tell them, as politely as possible, before taking it up with the council.

BiL had one in the front garden to deter cats. He's a good few years older than me and there's an age gap between me and DH, so it would annoy me, and no one else would notice.

Either he's stopped using it since he's had a young family, or I've got old enough not to notice it. I suspect the former as my children haven't reacted to the presence of one.

Just go knock on their door and have A word. Then report back!!