Creative Editing
Chapter 4
Exercise 7
7. Edit this story, which has various problems.
mouse trap
HIPASS, Ca (AP) -- A sound so shrill that it drives rodents wild, flattens cock roaches, and sends fleas flying is whistling up a fortune for Bob Brown, a guitar player disabled by polio who retired in 1980 on a $235 a month social security check.
In his garage one day 6 years ago Brown was putting together a electric guitar when he tangled some wires. He saw rats scatter. He crossed the wires again and the rodents ran again.
Brown, 51 built what he called a "rat repellant box". Since then 18000 of the boxes have been produced in Los Angelas and TiJuana Mex
A chicken farmer North of San Diego bought the first repellant box when according to Brown "about 10000 mice were bothering the chickens every night".
"It cleared his place in 4 or 5 days" Brown said.
The Venezualan government recently bought three hundred of the boxes to kill cock roaches in food stores in Caracus and 1000 were sent to spanish graneries in Barcelona.
Brown plans to fly to New York city next week to talk to Department of housing and urban Development officials about placing 9000 units in government housing.
"The box'es frequency is over a million cycles per second Brown said. The human ear can hear up to about 20000 cycles per second.
"We're jaming the sensory systems of rats, cock roaches, and even ants" Brown said. "We've got a vibration high enough to jam 'em like a foreign broadcaster jams our radio Brown said. We discovered that the antenna on roaches just folds up when they hear that sound he said. "They're on there backs, out of touch, and without any balance"
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