My project to use 24/7 outdoor music broadcast to repel urban hoodlums - don't let your memes stay dreams

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GunCar Gary said:
were they also asking for information on placement of speakers and types of music and other technical information that you've shared in this thread, or did multiple grown men really need you to draw them a diagram of how to attach a speaker to an exterior wall and connect it to a device with an audio out jack?
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They literally needed a picture of how to set it up.

These city government functionaries are not practically minded people. They fall into 2 categories: diversity hires and clueless pencil pushers plucked straight out of grad school with more masters degrees than common sense and "lived experience", as the libtards would say.

It's a sinecure position or office, I'm guessing. No repercussions for being slow.
 
millais said:
They literally needed a picture of how to set it up.

These city government functionaries are not practically minded people. They fall into 2 categories: diversity hires and clueless pencil pushers plucked straight out of grad school with more masters degrees than common sense and "lived experience", as the libtards would say.

It's a sinecure position or office, I'm guessing. No repercussions for being slow.
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well i suppose that's not surprising for government workers, but at least they're interested in trying it out instead of calling you racist. baby steps
 
Heres some japanese war music.
Strange whiny voice. Hefty bass in the background. And a beautiful message.
:semperfidelis:

HONOR OUR TUVANIAN BROTHERS.
:semperfidelis:
 
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Music (or just noise) that is intentionally grating or repulsive is too easy in my opinion, and lacks something.
I would suggest the real goal is to find songs that are repulsive at a fundamental level to the junkie and thug phenotype, and nonoffensive to normal people.
 
millais said:
But I think it's still better to try and push out the hoodrats, and maybe later I will be asking you all for recommendations of music that will repel illegals.
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If you went through with my Marlene Dietrich music request, did that help any more or less? Maybe edit her voice to make it deeper or scratchier for the reverb.

 
Earlier this week, I tried to reactivate the powerful broadcast unit due to the formation of a new homeless encampment right across the property boundary from this unit. This time I don't know who it is or really what is going on. But they are building a small fort with discarded wooden pallets and blankets, between a dumpster and a big overgrown lowhanging tree, which makes it difficult to observe and photo. I don't see any people entering or exiting, but supposedly someone is living in there.

One of the speaker pairs on the powerful unit completely burned out when I reactivated it. The power supply socket on the speaker either corroded or got pulled out of alignment, so resistance shot way up and pulled too many amps when I plugged it back in.

The surviving speaker pair may be similarly damaged, and not as loud as before. Bad value for those speakers, which were the newest and most expensive ones that I bought for this project, and only worked for a year.

So to augment the struggling speaker, I wired in a cheap Chinese portable boombox speaker that I found in the trash a few years ago and was saving as an emergency backup for a situation like this. This speaker occasionally interrupts the audio track with barely comprehensible status announcements in a female Chinglish voice like "low battery warning" or "AUX mode activated", but apart from that it seems to work reliably.

I put "La valise" on loop because even with this new speaker, the total output volume just doesn't seem to be as strong as before, so a louder track is necessary.

Old speaker on left, new one on right:
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In action:
 
Small shoutout from the MATI stream today! It was in combo with the "vigilante's" going around spraying narcan into junkie's noses.
I am all in for people fucking up junkies in such a based way. "officer, i'm just playing music to enrich those of lesser upbringing." //"officer, i thought they were OD'ing, I was told by the news and ads to keep narcan on me to help those suffering from OD until the paramedics arrived."
it's so funny in the US you don't HAVE TO render aid like you have to in other countries. So therefor if you do render aid and it hurts/injures a person BUT SAVES THEM (or even if they die???), you're not liable for anything.
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(On the flip side, I've always interpreted that thing of 'you do not have to render aid' as : as long as you dont directly contribute to someone's death or demise, you can just watch someone shoot themselves or jump off a bridge and walk away from it.) (correct me if i'm wrong.)
 
gampboonerisms said:
Small shoutout from the MATI stream today! It was in combo with the "vigilante's" going around spraying narcan into junkie's noses.
I am all in for people fucking up junkies in such a based way. "officer, i'm just playing music to enrich those of lesser upbringing." //"officer, i thought they were OD'ing, I was told by the news and ads to keep narcan on me to help those suffering from OD until the paramedics arrived."
it's so funny in the US you don't HAVE TO render aid like you have to in other countries. So therefor if you do render aid and it hurts/injures a person BUT SAVES THEM (or even if they die???), you're not liable for anything.
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(On the flip side, I've always interpreted that thing of 'you do not have to render aid' as : as long as you dont directly contribute to someone's death or demise, you can just watch someone shoot themselves or jump off a bridge and walk away from it.) (correct me if i'm wrong.)
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Ironically, I think this type of continuous outdoor music broadcast would be fairly ineffective against fent zombies. They are too comatose for any sound or noise to affect them.

Fortunately I only had to deal with one so far this year. He was so insensible, the loud music just wouldn't have registered. I even tried to awaken him by positioning the front of my car just a few feet away from his head and laying on the horn, but he did not so much as twitch even after a solid minute of car horn.

At the time, I wasn't aware of the narcan technique (this was months ago, and I don't think they do the free narcan distribution thing in this area), so I just had to wait for the zombie to wake up from the fent stupor into a state of just being blackout intoxicated, and wave him off the property using exaggerated hand gestures, like herding a cow. The police did show up 5 or 6 hours later (gotta love that record-breaking response time for so-called non-violent crimes), but by then the zombie was probably passed out on someone else's sidewalk.

If it ever happens again, my plan is to call an ambulance instead of police, as they might have a faster response time and they might do the narcan thing without me having to be liable or get involved.
 
@millais I thought of you this weekend! I was somewhere with one of my children in the evening (urban shopfronts) and my teenage son said he could hear this really annoying high pitched noise coming from one of the shops. I explained to him that this is used to deter teens and told him about your project (in a ‘I once heard about this guy…’ way.) he said he’d quite like classical playing around him, but he’s a nice kid, so probably not your target market.
The mozzie noise though really upset him and we had to get away from it. I could only hear it in certain places, but it does seem effective. It made him very upset and twitchy.
Be careful with narcan, they come out of it really fast and really aggressive. The idea of a narcan aerosol squirting the dent zombies who then awaken to a loud rendition of the four seasons is great though. Maybe you need a sprinkler system
 
Otterly said:
@millais I thought of you this weekend! I was somewhere with one of my children in the evening (urban shopfronts) and my teenage son said he could hear this really annoying high pitched noise coming from one of the shops. I explained to him that this is used to deter teens and told him about your project (in a ‘I once heard about this guy…’ way.) he said he’d quite like classical playing around him, but he’s a nice kid, so probably not your target market.
The mozzie noise though really upset him and we had to get away from it. I could only hear it in certain places, but it does seem effective. It made him very upset and twitchy.
Be careful with narcan, they come out of it really fast and really aggressive. The idea of a narcan aerosol squirting the dent zombies who then awaken to a loud rendition of the four seasons is great though. Maybe you need a sprinkler system
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That is interesting. I remember in mid-2000s, for a while there was this fad with very high-pitched ring tones that were only audible to teenagers, so they could take mobile phone calls during class without teachers hearing the ringing.

It's been a long time since my sound system has played just classical music - I think I gave up on pure classical after just 1-2 weeks. The classical definitely works as a deterrent if you can turn the volume up loud enough to drown out the hoodlums' bluetooth speakers or smartphone speakers that are inevitably blasting their own music, but I was limited by the power output of my speakers and the lack of any real sound insulation on my side.

So fairly early on, I focused on picking tracks and creating repetitive playlists that would be annoying and hard to ignore, even at just a moderately loud volume level. Taken to an extreme, this strategy is what I would describe as the "Baby Shark" approach, in which business owners will play one of those simple nursery rhymes or stimulating songs for babies and toddlers on loop, instead of a classical mix.

The "Baby Shark" approach is truly the nuclear option, as it will annoy and piss off everyone in the area, not just the hoodlums, and it's slightly less optics friendly, in the sense that there is some plausible deniability with the classical or regular music, that you are actually just piping in ambient music and not implementing a deterrent tactic. That's probably why no one does it anymore, even though it was a popular thing a few years ago with unimaginative business owners who all went straight to that "Baby Shark" song because of its infamously annoying qualities.

I never had to completely resort to that as a permanent and ultimate measure, but did put a children's song on loop once when things were really bad.
 
millais said:
The "Baby Shark" approach is truly the nuclear option, as it will annoy and piss off everyone in the area, not just the hoodlums, and it's slightly less optics friendly, in the sense that there is some plausible deniability with the classical or regular music, that you are actually just piping in ambient music and not implementing a deterrent tactic.
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La Valise is an educational song. Teaching the local underserved population common words for travel related items in the hopes of giving them the aspiration of visiting France and exploring its rich culture. It's truly inspirational, really a service to the community.
 
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