Monday, April 25, 2011

Bell + Howell Pest Repeller Ad

This Bell + Howell Pest Repeller thing is advertised as being animal-friendly by not using any dangerous elements. It just uses sonic waves and stuff to repel animals. But is this really humane? Think about it. How is this different from playing the Barney theme over and over at detainees? That was called torture then, but doing it to animals is fine, huh? You might say that using high-frequency sound waves is not as bad as repeatedly playing the theme from Barney and Friends, but how do you know that this Bell + Howell device doesn’t immobilize the animals when we’re not looking and then play the Barney theme over and over at them out of the range of human hearing? Can you prove they’re not doing it? I still say throwing shoes and chasing them away with a broom is way more humane than this electronic torture device. And it’s way more fun, too. Unless you like to torture animals. Weirdo.