As to the legality of the 'Sound Emitting Device"
I had found the box containing the device while cleaning out a storage room at Landmark. It was a long, thin box, marked, "Sound Emitting Device." I asked the center manager what it was. She told me not to worry about it, as they only used it on "hard cases," and that they would not use it on me. She told me that they did not use it at the center, but put it into peoples' drainpipes. I asked her if they first obtained consent, and she told me "no." I didn't like that.
A few nights later, in the wee hours of the morning, I heard someone walking on my roof, and also the sound of a car idling nearby. This was followed by the sound of someone screwing in something metallic, near the back of the house. It was dark outside, and difficult to see.
I wanted to call the police, but remembered past experiences with peeping toms - when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. I decided to try to get the license plate number off of the car first.
I got up to look out the window with a flashlight. Immediately, I heard someone running across the roof, the car door slammed, and the car went tearing down the street. I did get a fairly good visual description.
Within a day or two, the sounds started. It seemed to be coming from the area of the bathroom, and was just on the edge of hearing. It was just loud enough that my ears would involuntarily strain to hear it. My dog could also hear it, and kept perking up her ears and going into the bathroom to look for the source, though she had never shown much interest in the bathroom before that. This went on for weeks.
I don't know what the device was. I do know that there are medical devices, such as what is used in Auditory Integrative Therapy. There are also things like "entrainment tapes," etc, and I don't know which, if any, of these are classified as medical devices. I am sure that there are other devices which I have never even heard of.
Not knowing what this thing was, I can't say whether or not it was a medical device. IF it was, they would be guilty of:
1) Practicing medicine without a license.
2) Practicing medicine without having established a doctor -patient relationship.
3) Practicing medicine without informed consent.
Intent may be harder to prove, but I might even add on:
4) Practicing medicine with intent to do harm.
Whatever it was, it was definitely used without consent, informed or otherwise, and I believe that the intent was malicious. Either way, it has to be illegal for other reasons, such as criminal trespassing and harassment.
Regardless of having signed their waiver form, I don't believe for one minute that the waiver protects them from prosecution for their crimes. As I recall, the waiver stated that the program consisted of "a series of conversations..."
I had found the box containing the device while cleaning out a storage room at Landmark. It was a long, thin box, marked, "Sound Emitting Device." I asked the center manager what it was. She told me not to worry about it, as they only used it on "hard cases," and that they would not use it on me. She told me that they did not use it at the center, but put it into peoples' drainpipes. I asked her if they first obtained consent, and she told me "no." I didn't like that.
A few nights later, in the wee hours of the morning, I heard someone walking on my roof, and also the sound of a car idling nearby. This was followed by the sound of someone screwing in something metallic, near the back of the house. It was dark outside, and difficult to see.
I wanted to call the police, but remembered past experiences with peeping toms - when seconds count, the police are only minutes away. I decided to try to get the license plate number off of the car first.
I got up to look out the window with a flashlight. Immediately, I heard someone running across the roof, the car door slammed, and the car went tearing down the street. I did get a fairly good visual description.
Within a day or two, the sounds started. It seemed to be coming from the area of the bathroom, and was just on the edge of hearing. It was just loud enough that my ears would involuntarily strain to hear it. My dog could also hear it, and kept perking up her ears and going into the bathroom to look for the source, though she had never shown much interest in the bathroom before that. This went on for weeks.
I don't know what the device was. I do know that there are medical devices, such as what is used in Auditory Integrative Therapy. There are also things like "entrainment tapes," etc, and I don't know which, if any, of these are classified as medical devices. I am sure that there are other devices which I have never even heard of.
Not knowing what this thing was, I can't say whether or not it was a medical device. IF it was, they would be guilty of:
1) Practicing medicine without a license.
2) Practicing medicine without having established a doctor -patient relationship.
3) Practicing medicine without informed consent.
Intent may be harder to prove, but I might even add on:
4) Practicing medicine with intent to do harm.
Whatever it was, it was definitely used without consent, informed or otherwise, and I believe that the intent was malicious. Either way, it has to be illegal for other reasons, such as criminal trespassing and harassment.
Regardless of having signed their waiver form, I don't believe for one minute that the waiver protects them from prosecution for their crimes. As I recall, the waiver stated that the program consisted of "a series of conversations..."
