Perhaps the only legitimate use would be stashing a caseload of these around Mar-a-Lago. You know. As a prank.
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Sometimes people do it to themselves and the prank ends up lasting for 13 years!
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I’m pretty sure the Chinese Government already did that, but the devices listen to annoying noises and do not emit them.
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Almost as good as a story I heard about a med student on rounds. They had a patient with Maple Syrup Urine Disease (a really rare metabolic disorder), and the attending requested a sample of urine to demonstrate how it actually smells like maple syrup.
So the urine cup is being passed around and smelled, until it got to the student who earlier had replaced the patient’s pee with some colored water and a little real maple syrup. Nobody else knew about the switcheroo.
“Wow! It really does smell like maple syrup!”
Drinks the whole thing like a shot
“Tastes like it, too!”
You could have tripped over the jaws on the floor.
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Yeah, reading the testimonials, all I could think was, “these people belong in prison.”
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I can think of some recipients for devices like this. None of them are friends, and they richly deserve the relentless misery one of these would engender. 
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The Scam Stuff guys sell a version of this with Cat or Cricket options that in addition glitterbomb anyone who rips them apart in the effort of stopping the sound:
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My nephew sent out Xmas cards that:
Spilled glitter when you opened it
and
Triggered a kitty chorus mewing a christmas carol.
Don’t remember the song’s name, but it went something like this:
Meow meow-meow-meow
Meow meow-meow-meow
Meow meow-meow-meow
Meow meow-meow-meow [continues in the background]
MEOW me-me-me-me Meow me-me-me-me Meow me-me-me-me Meow meow-meow-meow
etc.
And you couldn’t shut it off! Not obviously…
I still see occasional sparkles in the carpet.
ETA:
Anyone remember these?:
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Excellent timing! I’ve been putting together a simple Windows-based “annoyatron” setup to play random sounds at random intervals. It’ll have a collection of sounds, anything from quiet whispering to a smoke alarm chirp to bodily noises to loud, obnoxious music.
Not that I would ever inflict it on anyone, of course, but a small drop-and-run package might be fun to have on my “PC Rescue & Instant Desktop” thumbdrive.
This post and comment thread is giving me all sorts of new sound ideas!
Not that I would ever inflict it on anyone, of course…
@theoprastus: I’ve heard tales of the innards of musical Christmas cards, etc, being removed from the card and hidden to evil effect. One story I read was about a fellow who hid one inside a PC keyboard, wired to the Caps Lock LED to power up whenever Caps Lock was active.
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I’d say that good pranks do exist, but a good prank is one that leaves the subject laughing harder than anyone else afterward. Any “prank” that leaves the subject annoyed, confused or infuriated is just “being a dick.”
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“I won’t link to it because it is evil.”
Also: “It is found on Etsy.”
Huh.
A certain controls engineer I work with would get a good laugh after chasing down this bug.
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Note: Never use these on anyone you want to remain friends with, unless you are open to escalation akin to DEFCON 2.
Does it have a proximity sensor, so that if anyone gets too close it doesn’t make a sound?
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My brother went on an arduous hike up a mountain with a large group of friends. When they go to the top, one of the hikers surprised the group by nonchalantly taking an intact watermelon out of his backpack to share with everyone. He’d had a friend carry his water and non-watermelon related gear in his pack, so nobody would notice until they all reached the summit.
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red nose day did one… then I used up the battery…
so I asked them if they still do it… got another should have gotten two maybe…
used to work in a certain hotel right on the coast and it had a cricket infestation…
at night they would come out… and the rest is evil…
I would catch some and feed them to a near by avery…
Nah, we screw around all the time.
Today my daughter posted on Facebook that someone signed her up for the last guy’s emails.
It was her father in law.
We’re a goofy family.
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