Car parks and the piece of pavement in front of a place of business are often considered the business' responsibility. How far the sound goes beyond that, I don't know.
I don't know if you have it in your town centres, but I've known dubious looking discount clothing shops to blare out 'trendy' music from speakers at the front door to try to attract their chosen type of customer. Sounds horrid and you can hear it from a fair distance away - it drives me off, that's for sure
I wonder two things -
1 - Can the people who set these up actually hear how loud they are? If not, how can they tell what range they have.
2 - What's going to happen when someone who can hear it (teen or not) registers a complaint with the police for breach of the peace.
And while I'm here - will this send babies screaming when they get taken into the shop? Because if there's one noise guaranteed to make me avoid a shop, it's a baby screaming. Imagine how horrid it would be to be assaulted by the spontaeneous explosive wailing of small bundles of stomach and lungs that people call babies when you go to the shop - even if you can't hear the whine.
I like the idea - there's no reason for people to hang around outside shops. I like the fact that it's not bringing down coppers to see them off, it's 'optional' on the part of the people.
But I think it hasn't been thought through.
Maybe random bursts of the sound over the course of the day - say nothing for half an hour, then 10 minutes of the sound. Might help?
