Teenage-only setting: 17 KHz sound (only under 25’s can hear)
All-age setting: 8 KHz sound (people of any age can hear)
4 volume / distance settings (maximum volume 103 dB)
That seems it would send a grizzly bear running at a hundred yards.
Posted on 12/19/2025 9:07:22 AM PST by algore
Noise machines installed by LA Home Depot ‘torture’ for day laborers, advocates say
Advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots Victoria Bekiempis Thu 18 Dec 2025 21.23 EST
A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high-pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday.
The Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (Idepsca), an advocacy organization that helps day laborers, called for the removal of these machines from Home Depot’s Cypress Park location, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Advocates for day laborers also demanded that Home Depot speak out against ICE raids in store parking lots. Immigration enforcement agents have repeatedly targeted the Cypress Park location, which is located near one of Idepsca’s support hubs, the Times reported.
Maegan Ortiz, Idepsca’s executive director, alleged that Home Depot deployed these noise machines to drive day laborers from the parking lot.
“We have been here and remain open through global pandemics, providing services and creating community,” Ortiz said at the press conference. “We’re not going to let sound machines, gates and intimidation get rid of us. Day laborers are here to stay. IDEPSCA is here to stay. The immigrant community is here to stay.”
One day laborer said he now wears earplugs to block the noise while he waits for work. The man said the sound “penetrates your bones”.
“They chose to weaponize sound,” Los Angeles city councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez said at the news conference, in remarks she shared on Instagram. “Devices like these are used as torture against our people.”
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Teenage-only setting: 17 KHz sound (only under 25’s can hear)
All-age setting: 8 KHz sound (people of any age can hear)
4 volume / distance settings (maximum volume 103 dB)
That seems it would send a grizzly bear running at a hundred yards.
Man, it was a lot of fun using it! I'd turn it on and within a few minutes the yutes would get quiet, stop what they'd been doing and start tugging at their ears and looking at each other quizzically. They would then quickly drift away. Used it on them for a few days and they stopped coming around.
One of my neighbors, who wore hearing aids, asked me one day if I knew what the crazy, annoying "buzzing" sound he was hearing was. Since I'd camouflaged the speaker box very well and I knew he couldn't see it I said, "What crazy sound?"
Only younger folks - or older ones with hearing aids - can hear above 12K. . .
Double down on ICE raids. Send in federal agents to arrest whomever hires them. Send the IRS as well to enforce tax laws.
Home Depot doesn’t want to round them up; ICE does. Maybe Home Depot doesn’t want the drama.
I don’t understand. This is private property. Home Depot can allow people to hang out there for day work, but they aren’t required to.
All Home Depot has to do to avoid the drama is what they are already doing in my part of the country as explained in post #40.
Genocidal, torturing, homicidal, cannibals and noble savages!
Idea....ICE vehicles play soothing happy sounds like ice cream trucks....they come running like kids with money!
We are going to rip out your beating heart and sacrifice you to our gods, but think of it as your chance to become culturally diverse.
I propose:
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