Posted on 07/18/2019 10:13:45 AM PDT by Maceman
Authorities in West Palm Beach, Florida are using children’s music to deter the homeless from setting up camp in a city-owned park.
West Palm Beach Lake Pavilion is a city-owned park and event venue frequently used by the homeless as a place to sleep. City officials are now playing the children’s songs “Baby Shark” and “Raining Tacos” in the park to annoy homeless campers, preventing them from sleeping, according to the Palm Beach Post.
“Legally morally ethically and even fiscally, any way you look at it, this [music] is not the right approach to this [homelessness] problem,” said Eric Tars, legal director at National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty told The Daily Caller.
“Sleep deprivation has been condemned as torture or at a minimum cruel, inhuman degrading treatment,” continued Tars. “It was condemned when they were playing loud rock music in Guantanamo or in Abu Ghraib to disrupt the detainees’ sleep patterns, and now we’re doing it to citizens,” he added.
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No one, and I mean no one, will be able to withstand baby shark on an endless loop.
Feelings, nothing more than feelings,
Trying to forget my feelings of love.
legally, they have every right to play music.
fiscally, once you have installed speakers in the park, it really costs nothing to play music.
Our downtown area has put up speakers around their parks, and plays various music. During events, they will pipe in whatever live music is being featured. At christmas they risk attack by actually playing christmas music.
“How about Slim Whitman?”
I would listen to the entire Whitman collection over “Macarena”, “Achy Breaky Heart” or “Girls Just Want To Have Fun”.
Hell, loop Barry Manilow endlessly rather than that list
I e never seen the shark one
Taco one my kids have been plying jncessatnykg for years
It’s-great song ! My kids love it !
Surely that would break some kind of law against torture.
I recall reading about a convenience store some time back that got rid of loitering "teens" by playing classical music. I thought that was a great idea. A little culture goes a long way.
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Sooo many options...
Rick Roll ‘em, heck yeah!
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