Posted on 05/19/2025 12:58:06 AM PDT by Libloather
A Los Angeles business owner has found a novel way to keep homeless people from camping near his building: playing a children’s song on an annoying loop.
“They played ‘Baby Shark’ all night long,” Tracy, a woman who lives in an encampment next door to the building at the corner of West 11th and Main streets, told NBC4 Los Angeles. “They’re doing everything they can to make us move or drive us crazy. But it’s doing the latter. It’s driving people crazy.”
The building owners began playing the song through a loudspeaker pointed directly at the encampment, which Tracy told the outlet had “kept her and others up all night.”
“This is ridiculous. We can’t get any sleep. We can’t get housing. We can’t eat,” she said. “And now they’re trying to drive us crazy with children’s music.”
Shalom Styles, who owns the barbershop Styles Barber Lounge, around the corner from the business playing “Baby Shark” told the outlet that they aren’t trying to be mean or insensitive to the homeless, but have businesses to run and are “just trying to survive.”
“It’s not always about being kind, because when people are taking away from business, and all the stores are going out of business,” Styles said. “We’re still here surviving, trying to put up for our family.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom released details last week about his multi-billion-dollar plan to tackle the homeless crisis in the Golden State and is pushing cities and counties to take “immediate action.”
On Monday, Newsom shared a model ordinance for cities and counties to “immediately address dangerous and unhealthy encampments and connect people experiencing homelessness with shelter and services.”
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That would deter me.
One proven method to encouraging teens and the homeless to leave an area is to play classical and opera music loudly.
You win!
The lyric is actually “four-bit room” ... a buck. Cheers!
Four bits is 50 cents
2bits
4bits
6 bits
A dollar
** The lyric is actually “four-bit room” ... a buck. **
half a buck. 2 bits is a quarter.
You’re right, of course. Stuck in first (mental) gear with my first cup of the morning out here. Cheers!
Play Barry Manilow. Through in some Leif Garett and David Cassidy.
lol. 😂
You must be in Morehead City?
A da da da
“the company has repeatedly declined to identify anyone else involved with creating the song. The reason? Death threats. The tune has apparently enraged people to the point of contemplating murder.”
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/548359/kars4kids-jingle-cruel-history
🤣😂
Now that’s just cruel! I don’t know if I can forgive you for putting that in my head.
I guess Baby Shark is a buzz-kill. They want some Pink Floyd.
It’s a small world after all
It’s a small world after all
It’s a small world after all
It’s a small small world
HAND OUT FETANYL
Bury them,
MAKE US A LIST OF “HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO HAVE JOBS”.
NOT buying that
good one
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