Los Angeles business owner blasts Baby Shark on repeat to ward off homeless encampments

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.”“There’s nothing compassionate about letting people die on the streets,” Newsom said in a news release.The ordinance is backed in part by $3.3 billion in new Prop 1 funding, Newsom’s office announced, adding that the governor is “calling on all local gover...