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Florida City Uses Music To Deter Homeless — Advocates Call It Torture
Daily Caller ^ | 7/18/2019 | Kyle Hooten

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: babyshark; erictars; florida; localnews; music; rainingtacos; westpalmbeach
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To: Maceman
Maybe this would be a better choice. 😆
81 posted on 07/18/2019 12:50:54 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Maceman

No one, and I mean no one, will be able to withstand baby shark on an endless loop.


82 posted on 07/18/2019 12:55:32 PM PDT by Conserv
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To: Maceman

Feelings, nothing more than feelings,
Trying to forget my feelings of love.


83 posted on 07/18/2019 12:59:22 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: Maceman

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.


84 posted on 07/18/2019 1:57:01 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: COBOL2Java

“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


85 posted on 07/18/2019 2:29:49 PM PDT by oldvirginian (Winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing. TRUMP 2020!!)
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To: Maceman

I e never seen the shark one

Taco one my kids have been plying jncessatnykg for years


86 posted on 07/18/2019 6:34:15 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Billthedrill

It’s-great song ! My kids love it !


87 posted on 07/18/2019 6:38:59 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Red Badger
It’s a Small World after all...................

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.

88 posted on 07/19/2019 7:17:10 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: castlebrew
Llama Llama Duck
89 posted on 07/19/2019 7:19:59 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: Maceman
What Does the Fox Say?

Skibidi

Pen Pineapple Apple Pen (PAAP)

Sooo many options...

90 posted on 07/19/2019 7:24:13 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: BlackAdderess

Rick Roll ‘em, heck yeah!


91 posted on 07/21/2019 9:27:24 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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