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.'
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Are smoke alarms are now found in nature? I see them all over.
I would hope that a reasonable property owner would take his neighbors into consideration. Common sense, to me at least, would dictate a pow wow with the neighbors on this.
But...in my opinion, pretty much anything that doesn’t cause distress to his fellow property owners should be fair game. Yet we know the law would disagree.
A few years ago on a clear day we could hear gunshots from 2 or 3 ranges near our house that was in a nice rural neighborhood.
My sister, who lived in inner city St. Louis, asked me if that bothered me.
I said no, it sounds like freedom.
Once word get out about the device then the illegals will just destroy it.
But what if a T-Rex sounds more like a rhino? I always thought those tough armor-plated terrors would make a fearsome noise like a bellow. Then I finally heard their vocalizations in a video. They sound like squeaky toys! I was flabbergasted! Those creatures who can grind you into the ground with very little effort make tiny little sounds that don’t match their otherwise dangerous reputations one iota!
Reptiles seem to hiss which is far from a bellow, but maybe it would be unnerving enough. Throw in a few rattlesnake rattles, too, for good measure. :)
Trashbag commies in Santa Monica are distributing needles in a park in a nice residential neighborhood, across the street from a church and school.
How about a sprinkler that fouses every 45 minutes.
I’d lean more toward one of the most natural sounds of nature in the typical liberal elitist big city...gunshots. when the down on their luck addicts, alcoholics and “not all there” mentally deficient decide to hang out at YOUR place then recordings of the various big city nightly gunfire might be for you. requires good speakers and a proximity sensor. the loud sounds of gunfire are not for everyone. if you are sensitive to feeling guilty for the life choices of lazy, drug-addled, alcoholic or otherwise mentally or emotionally disturbed people who are not even related to you or especially sensitive to people who you ARE related too who only make bad choices and destroy any and every family member who attempts to help them out, “Big city gunshot sounds” is not right for you.
Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” (all 48 pieces) played on a loop is effective as well.
QUIT VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS, MORON!!
I had two German Shepherds. The one would bark, the other was silent.
The silent one would circle around behind the person and get between them and their car, while they were paying attention to the barker.. She would bite.
Luckily I lived very remote with no neighbors and my dirt lane was a mile long. People didn’t just show up.
A friend of mine built his house in the middle of his 600 acre fenced in ranch. You had to open the locked gate and drive through the cows to get to the house. He just put steep steps up to his porch to keep the cows out of his house. The bull protected his cows, and the house.
German Shepherds are an exceptional choice for their combination of brains, loyalty, capabillity, and even appearence. They also need a lot of room to move around. A large spread with multiple Shepherd sounds ideal.
A good dog deserves a good home built for the dogs’ needs. Those dogs scored.
Or the greatest hits of Frank Sinatra..
This would not bother me. I like the sound of crickets and the blue light reminds me of K-Mart.
“why blue?”
My guess is if you’re only loosely connected to reality, a blue strobe is going to rock what little anchor you have left. If you’re high, or sick, a blue strobe will likely make whatever condition you’re suffering feel worse. At the very least, it’s a step away from normal and comforting.
For some reason, flashing a blue light, the junkies can’t find a vein.
My old boss told a story when he was young, he lived in a townhouse and the neighbor would party until the wee hours of the morning. He tried reasoning with him but no luck. He went to a goodwill and bought an old 8 track player and a tape of Iron Maiden’s album with In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida on it. Got ready for work, put on the 8 track, pointed the speakers towards his neighbor and went to work. Said he never had another problem with the neighbor.
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