In today’s news, China’s dancing grannies: ‘stun gun’ claims to solve square dancing dilemma by sabotaging the music. A month ago, the same source reported China considers legal changes to curb noise pollution from the country’s notorious dancing grannies. But that isn’t the news -- back in 2017, CNN reported that Beijing gets tough on dancing grannies. No, it’s this small device which can allegedly disable a loud-speaker at a distance. I’ve wanted one of these in my car forever, but I’m skeptical of its efficacy. Details from Business Insider: This is the $40 speaker-silencing gadget people are using to shut down China’s crowds of dancing grandmas.
For more of the dancing, which actually can be rather pleasant, when it happens in the park, a Wall Street Journal video from 2014: Will China Ban the Dancing Grannies? I’ve heard the claim that some are so obnoxious because they were Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution.
And just to clear up any confusion, what’s generally called a stun ‘gun’ isn’t anything you shoot, but a hand-held electroshock weapon (with two electrodes) which must be pressed up against the victim -- in contrast with the Taser (named after Tom Swift’s Electric Rifle from 1911 (available at Project Gutenberg) with the extra “A” added to make it sound cool) -- that weapon is a gun, which shoots two coils of fine wire at the victim.