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  The city of Fort Lauderdale plays abian noise at 4am when clubs get out. They also put on sprinklers all over even where’s there is no grass so homeless can’t sleep.
context: Like, physically?  How fucking loud is it? >
  
  Find out how much power and dB it is to push a known weight, scale up. I think the military has loudspeakers powerful enough. >
  
  They used to play classical music at the train stations so the kids didn't hang out. >
  
  It worked until Beethoven and Bach started hanging out. >
  
  A Walgren's in Albuquerque does this. I used to get my lunch across the street at the supermarket then go sit on the grass out front. I noticed a number of others doing similar. A roasted chicken thigh, fresh tortillas, and Rossini is absolutely the best. >
  
  Back in the '80s when I was skateboarding me and Friends used to go skating at a local church. They had plenty of handrails and nice wide sloping handicap ramps, perfect for skateboarding and grinding. Calling the cops on us to get us to leave didn't work, then they sprinkled gravel on all the sidewalks and ramps around the church. We brought brooms. Then they decided to loudly pipe out some  corny hillbilly sounding bluegrass gospel music to get us to leave.... it had a decent BPM to skate to. Then they decided to go CIA mode and torture us with Old Testament Bible readings by who sounded  like Ferris Bueller's school teacher, and did it at full blast.. we surrendered, we moved on to a strip mall a couple blocks over from the church >
  
  I mean, this is better than spraying them with a hose. >
  
  This is a fantastic solution >
  
  Except not legal. >
  
  Homelessness is not a crime, but playing loud music throughout the night is.
  
  One KXAN viewer who lives in an apartment building opposite the building contacted us, saying he could also hear the opera music playing throughout the night. The viewer is not alone; the City of Austin said they received five complaints for the store since the start of 2023 when the music likely started, based on Morgan’s timeline. 
  According to Austin’s Code of Ordinance of amplified sound, a business may not operate equipment that produces a sound louder than 85 decibels, equivalent to that of a food blender, from the property line between the hours of 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. And from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m., the sound should not be audible at the property line, according to the same code. >
  
  Loitering is a crime… >
  
  Wtf is loitering? >
  
  I think it's just like hanging around a location doing nothing >
  
  
  I think it's just like hanging around a location doing nothing
  
  Depends on the state. That's legal in Tennessee.
  If you are interfering with traffic (including foot traffic), that's loitering.
  It was a trope (long ago) that disreputable looking people who just hung around doing nothing would be arrested for "loitering with intent". O. Henry used it at least once. >
  
  Depends on the city too. In NYC/SF you have the people that open doors and demand you pay them for doing so. I can see how that can intimidate some people >
  
  Back in my old city there was a 7-11 that did the same thing. It was obnoxious. I don't know how well it worked, cause it was still a hotbed for shady peeps >
  
  I wouldn't doubt it, really. >
  
  Good.  F em. >
  
  I bet this will be a law soon!