Michael Cooney
Senior Editor

Teens use ringtone adults can’t hear

Opinion
May 26, 20061 min

God bless the U.K., because without it there’d be fewer odd mobile phone stories.

The latest: Teens are downloading a ringtone that can be heard by their peers, but not by adults.

The high-pitched alarm, which was originally intended to drive teen gangs away from shopping centers, has been turned into a ringtone known as “Teen Buzz.”

The ringtone allow students to receive calls and text messages during class without their teachers’ knowledge.

Said one high school teacher in Wales: “One of the other children told me all about it later. I couldn’t be too cross, because it shows resourcefulness.”

Yet another reason to love our pals from the Mother Country – they use cool words like “cross.”