Yes, that pillar of society that has been with us since that slithery dude threw humanity for a curve in the Garden of Eden that cornerstone of society has been automated.I am speaking, of course, of the public nuisance ( I wrote about him in Part 1 at www.thehappyguy.com/nuisance1.html. )No longer do pests have to come around in restaurants and train stations and villages singing loudly and playing their harpsichords. We now have machines to do that for us machines like televisions and radios and elevator muzak and backfiring Mustangs.

But it’s harder to throw a brick at a TV, because bar owners send bloodthirsty lawyers after you, something the old-fashioned public nuisances knew nothing about. And how can you throw a brick at the shadowy creature producing elevator muzak?

Mitch Altman would invent a high-tech way to neutralize those high-tech public nuisances. It’s an infrared keychain called TV-B-Gone that shuts off intrusive TVs remotely.”Hey I was watching that show,” calls out the six-foot-four, burly guy at the bar. “Whoever zapped my show has five second to unzap it., or I’ll get off this stool.” Oh, well. I suppose there are still a few technical adjustments to tinker with.

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