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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Or 120 dB of Spike Jones.
Iron Butterfly was the artist but I get your drift.
It sounds like the neighbors are OK with it and want some of their own.
What’s worse is I Googled it too. Old timers.
“Bach’s ‘Well-Tempered Clavier’”
I used to play that on the piano in high school. It drove my father NUTS. (Fun to play though.)
Blue lights on skin make it harder to see surface veins.
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How clever. But, of course, I see that opponents have all kinds of reasons why blue lights shouldn’t be used. I guess to them nothing should be used, and you should just accept drug addicts and/or homeless hanging around your home or business.
Then the junkies can go hang around their homes.
Pit bulls have to be taught to be aggressive. A dozen chihuahuas would work better and require no training. Nasty little rats. Be like land based four legged piranhas.
German Shepherds are often too smart for their own good.
Every single one I have had, we had a face to face talk to settle who was boss. I pick them up by the scruff of the neck and stare into their eyes until they soften and relax. After that, they usually listen. I’ve had many over the years.
Thunder, asteroid impacts, earthquakes, rockslides, avalanches, volcanic explosions ... these are all sounds from nature.
Maybe to remind everyone to vote ‘rat?
Or maybe because it’s suggestive of police?
You’ll need a big ol’ pooper scooper.
Play classical music and opera outside and it’ll keep the bums away. It has actually proven to work. Why? I don’t know.
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