Posted on 09/25/2024 12:25:46 PM PDT by Morgana
A fed-up California homeowner developed a 'diversion security' device to prevent homeless people from camping out in his building's carports.
Santa Monica resident Stephen McMahon, 76, invented the Blue Chirper motion-activated device that emits blue strobe lights and a cricket noise to dissuade homeless people from getting comfortable.
Security footage has captured the device successfully scaring off people who have tried to sleep in the carports when alarm system starts going off.
'I call it diversion security, that is we're diverting them away from our 20-block radius somewhere else,' McMahon told KTLA.
McMahon said he has grown frustrated with the number of homeless people taking shelter in his carport.
He created the device after someone stole over $20,000 worth of items from locked storage in his building's garage, according to the Santa Monica Daily Press.
'I've lived here for over 30 years, and I've seen this neighborhood, which was just paradise, it was beautiful, deteriorate over the last five to six years,' he said.
'I want to push these people out of here and bring Santa Monica back to the way it was.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
'Look, as long as it's a sound you hear in nature and it's not louder than an actual cricket, you're going to be fine,' he said. 'Nobody can complain about it.' "
In the video on the link he says "as long as it's a sound found from nature"
So can he build me one that has a tyrannosaurus rex bellowing? That is a sound found from nature.
Get me a recording of a genuine, living T-Rex bellowing and I’ll build it for you.
What a wonderful idea. I love the sound of a tyrannosaurus roaring. it sounds like . . . like . . freedom.
If I had a genuine T Rex I would not have a homeless problem. I’d have the ultimate watch dog.
why blue?
What happens when they steal your device?
Junk yard dogs positioned at each corner with a 100 foot chain.
Howler monkeys and humpback whales are natural sounds too. And so are rattlesnakes. Can we go with natural smells like skunks?
This is like the convenience stores that play operatic arias on speakers outside the store to keep homeless and other assorted thugs from hanging around the doors
My dog identifies as a T rex
๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญ’๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐๐๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ.
This is why you see a lot of public bathrooms with blue or purple lights.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/blue-lights-drug-users-high/story?id=56140028
How blue lights can help drug users from getting high
Blue lights on skin make it harder to see surface veins.
And that you pay boatloads of taxes for law enforcement services and get nothing in return.
“๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐๐๐ญ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ.”
I see your point but it would be upsetting for his neighbors if he had this blasting death metal every time it kicked on. So I see why they told him to use sounds of nature.
A friend who participated in the Great South-East Asia Two Way Marksmanship Contest swears that there’s a lizard in Viet-Nam whose call sounds like “f*ckYOUf*ckYOUf*ckYOU!!!”
Americans have been ingenious in many ways for many years in bot good and bad ways.
A pack of wolves howling at the moon should do the trick, too.
What a world the liberals have created. He should be able to blast them out of his property.
It’s come to that, has it?
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