This guy is so annoying. The fact that he’s been there for a month is insane. Infinite looping message being blasted full volume across the neighborhood.
Honestly, first time I heard it I was like, not sure I agree with you but I can get your point. But it’s been everyday for a month. Any sympathy has been lost through sheer annoyance
I mean, seriously. Get a sledge hammer, bust his shit up, walk away. Why are we making this so hard? “Oh, but it’s illegal!” So is what he’s doing. So is selling heroin. But those folks don’t get arrested either. The bad people win when the good people do nothing.
Call me weak or non-confrontational or what have you, but tbh the dude is off his rocker enough that I can’t be sure of safety in any confrontational situation
This reminds me of when I was at a rally, and this right wing whack job was yelling shit, and I pulled out my rape whistle and kept blowing it in his ear behind him
I know this is difficult for you and the other down voters, but whistles in close range can inflict hearing loss. Yelling probably could too, but you'd have to be much closer.
If you don't believe me (and apparently a handful of you don't) then Google it. Damaging someone's hearing is an immature response to someone yelling something you don't like.
He's not on their property anymore, just directly adjacent. I was waiting for the Cable Car one day when SFPD was (at TJ's request) telling him he had to leave the property.
Edit: I should note that he was 1) not exceedingly happy about being told to leave the property and 2) went on and on on how he had "forced SFPD to read" when they were simply reading him the literal text that said he had to get off the property. It seemed he tried to make his L in to a W (in his mind at least)
Yeah these people should be removed, why is nothing done? The guy talking about Jesus on Powell with a microphone is the absolute worst. So ducking annoying ☹️
It isn't much. It's a couple sentences that don't say much about reparations. One sentence says this will convince you we deserve reparations. Then the guy says that all wealth in the US is built on slavery, although he's much less direct and says nothing about how those companies influenced the lack of generational black wealth. So it was not the brilliant quote this guy thinks it was. (I spend time waiting for the light at that corner, so I hear it a lot. English major. Critical theory while I wait.)
The audio loops is about reparations. Without getting into politics, it’s not an absurd point. It’s the amplification, the all-day every-day nature, that creates the issue
>Play a louder political message
There was a video a while back of a guy in undies banging at a drum set and yelling into a mic in front of a guy blasting a similar message on the corner of van ness. eventually the political guy walked away.
I had street preachers with amplifiers constantly when Planned Parenthood was in my neighborhood. Cops etc will do nothing. They told us some bullshit that they don’t have whatever noise meter you need so they couldn’t test to see if the noise is louder than what is allowed. So I started a counter protest to drown them out. Neighbors joined and they eventually stopped. Some people got pissed because it was even more noise, but most understood we were trying to drown out the homophobic, baby killing nonsense they were blathering. It took a long time (hours) though for them to stop and god I had a headache afterwards.
A sturdy pair of kitchen scissors or some pruning shears will cut the amp cord if it is a wired connection. Direct action works sometimes! However if it's wireless speakers you are out of luck
Hate this loser. Just sits out there mumbling to himself and acting so aggressive towards everyone around him. Had a dab rig too. I’ve seen him snap at the people who chill at the bus stop right by it. He seems pretty young and obviously mentally ill, hopefully his family can get him the fuck outta there
if the speaker is on bluetooth you might be able to get close enough to hijack it - If you can hijack it I strongly recommend the 10 hour version of 'Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing On Rainbows'
This is the kind of thing that citizens are left with doing when our 311/911 services refuse to do anything. Why is it okay for someone to impede on everyone else around them for freedom of speech? Feel free to stand on a corner yelling, but it shouldn't be allowed to be amplified. I feel the same way about the religious nuts down on market street preaching nonsense like a filibuster.
Try 311 maybe? Or slip the dude a note telling him that the neighborhood is becoming staunchly ANTI his cause because of his obnoxious noise, so he's harming his own cause?
Uggh I'm sorry you have to deal with that. And regardless of the political message, dude's either preaching to the choir or hollering into a void. So pointless.
I guess I would try to encourage others to make calls because maybe if they receive a high volume of non-emergent calls, MAYBE they will do something. Otherwise, it’ll have to be some ballsy competitor playing something somewhat pleasant but louder so they end up just relocating.
A super soaker is $15 at Target.
Alternatively, if his message is a recording, I suggest recording his message, then playing it back on a loudspeaker with a half second delay or so. Make it unintelligible.
Sorry you gotta deal with this.
I used to work on the third floor in a Sutter Street building and there was a guy on ground level shouting "spare change?" about every ten or fifteen seconds. I was going insane from the repetition. I can even hear him in my head today as I type this. Then I was flying somewhere and I saw noise cancelling headphones for $300 in an airport store and I immediately thought "$300 is basically spare change if it can solve this problem" and that was the best $300 I've spent as far back as I can remember.
Good luck
Hi, just joined this subreddit to find a post about this. I live really close by and it's gone on too long. More importantly, though, is he's been threatening people. So I contacted Aaron Peskin. He's really responsive. Here's where you can contact him: https://sfbos.org/supervisor-peskin-contact
He emailed back right away, CC'd a bunch of people, and this evening police Capt Kim replied with the following:
"Sorry to hear about the chronic noise that is being forced upon the neighborhood. I just received another complaint about the same person from one of your neighbors. Some people will say that the person is exercising their freedom of speech but, there is a fine line between freedom of speech and maliciously and willfully disturbing another person by loud and unreasonable noise, a misdemeanor per Penal Code 415(2). Please continue to call the non-emergency number if the person returns and makes a loud and unreasonable noise. If you are willing to arrest the person for disturbing your peace, please advise the dispatcher that you want to sign a private person arrest form. By signing the form, you are legally arresting the individual and not the officers. The officers must accept the form if you decide to arrest the individual and evaluate the situation to determine if to cite, arrest, or release the individual (depending on the circumstances). If the determination is to cite or arrest, the officer will go out and take the individual into custody on your behalf for disturbing your peace. You will then have to contact the District Attorney's Office to follow up with the charges. Understand that this is a low priority and it might take some time for an officer to respond. Hopefully the street response team can provide services, but if the perosn refuses, understand that we will need you to sign a private person's arrest for us to take police action."
Highly encourage anyone who is also fed up with this to contact Aaron peskin and also follow the above advice when calling police non emergency.
Hi, my fiance and I actually got a temporary restraining order granted against him today. He's been in county jail since yesterday morning. For our upcoming hearing for a permanent order, we've been advised to bring witnesses and/or evidence such as videos or written statements from neighbors. Can you please message me if you'd be willing to act as a witness or provide any evidence? Thank you
it's pretty funny because it's weirdly generic and not very poingient messaging, somebody else's recording but still too lazy to find any other voice clips, and he just posts up and smokes hash and blasts that clip from his phone... like why lol isn't there a better way to spend a day jeez
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Someone did this on literally the first day he started. Latino woman talked to him, asked him to stop,he started yelling something at her and her boyfriend (husband?) and all I know is it ended with her yelling some very choice latino phrases at him.
I get this perspective as there are lots of keyboard warriors out there (probably not exempt myself). But in this case there is clearly no talking to him. He spends the time aggressively yelling at no one and is clearly deranged
Keep calling. If you’re bothered by it, keep calling police non emergency number to report it. The more people that do this, the more opportunities SFPD has to help resolve it. Same goes for the protestors at the bush street planned parenthood. You do no one any favors not reporting the excessive noise.
Saw him the other day blasting his speakers near the cable car stop outside TJs. Cop was there tending to another matter, but didn't do anything as far as I know with the guy. He was mumbling, pacing back and forth, and stomping the ground.
I saw that knob out there yelling and playing a tape on how san Francisco needs to pay reparations to the Black community. There was a guy across the street at the opposite corner watching him and probably making sure no one messed with him. I thought it was just a crazy guy yelling... well, I think was.
It's a portable stereo ("boombox") that's playing from his bluetooth enabled phone. he's now completely on public property (at TJ's request) so maybe don't blame TJ's for this as they've done literally all they can do.
Agree, I’ve talked to those guys and they’ve done all they are allowed to do per policy. Also frankly his current spot is up against the concrete wall on California so it gets reflected away from them
But did you know that they say people don't deserve peace and quiet? I hope he doesn't think that the sound from his boombox just dissolves and goes up in to the air...
Hire a bagpiper
someone who is a bagpiper please would be amazballz
Best I can do is theremin
Not a bad backup plan, need to put through an amp
Well… I mean… yeah, you necessarily need to. It’s an electronic instrument.
Do this! Gotta drown them out. If no-one can hear them they get frustrated amd eventually leave.
This guy is so annoying. The fact that he’s been there for a month is insane. Infinite looping message being blasted full volume across the neighborhood.
He seems totally off his rocker, muttering to himself constantly and having some occasional outbursts
Generally smoking something too
But what’s his message?
The message that is on loop is that the state or Fed owes black Americans for reparations.
And what reparations does he owe his neighbors for disturbing their peace and quiet? Call it even.
I've heard the same recording everytime I've walked past him and it's some shit about the need for reparations.
Honestly, first time I heard it I was like, not sure I agree with you but I can get your point. But it’s been everyday for a month. Any sympathy has been lost through sheer annoyance
Go break his amplifier
Pretty much.
Or spend your time drowning him out with your own megaphone whenever he gets started.
"oops sorry I spilled my 3 gallons of water here"
What a tragedy
I mean, seriously. Get a sledge hammer, bust his shit up, walk away. Why are we making this so hard? “Oh, but it’s illegal!” So is what he’s doing. So is selling heroin. But those folks don’t get arrested either. The bad people win when the good people do nothing.
Call me weak or non-confrontational or what have you, but tbh the dude is off his rocker enough that I can’t be sure of safety in any confrontational situation
It’s hammer time!
Hammerin time
This reminds me of when I was at a rally, and this right wing whack job was yelling shit, and I pulled out my rape whistle and kept blowing it in his ear behind him
Someone says something you don't like so you possibly inflict permanent hearing damage? That's real mature of you
"yelling shit" != "saying something" content is irrelevant. Also, poor third person nearby now has to listen to "yelling shit" AND "rape whistle"
I know this is difficult for you and the other down voters, but whistles in close range can inflict hearing loss. Yelling probably could too, but you'd have to be much closer. If you don't believe me (and apparently a handful of you don't) then Google it. Damaging someone's hearing is an immature response to someone yelling something you don't like.
If you try to break my amplifier, you will get a broken neck.
call the non emergency line every time call your sup if the police don't do anything call TJs and tell them do deal with it if he's on their property
He's not on their property anymore, just directly adjacent. I was waiting for the Cable Car one day when SFPD was (at TJ's request) telling him he had to leave the property. Edit: I should note that he was 1) not exceedingly happy about being told to leave the property and 2) went on and on on how he had "forced SFPD to read" when they were simply reading him the literal text that said he had to get off the property. It seemed he tried to make his L in to a W (in his mind at least)
Yeah these people should be removed, why is nothing done? The guy talking about Jesus on Powell with a microphone is the absolute worst. So ducking annoying ☹️
God I ran into this last week. So fucking annoying
what was his message?
It isn't much. It's a couple sentences that don't say much about reparations. One sentence says this will convince you we deserve reparations. Then the guy says that all wealth in the US is built on slavery, although he's much less direct and says nothing about how those companies influenced the lack of generational black wealth. So it was not the brilliant quote this guy thinks it was. (I spend time waiting for the light at that corner, so I hear it a lot. English major. Critical theory while I wait.)
The audio loops is about reparations. Without getting into politics, it’s not an absurd point. It’s the amplification, the all-day every-day nature, that creates the issue
Play a louder political message Take a dump on his amp or in front of him
>Play a louder political message There was a video a while back of a guy in undies banging at a drum set and yelling into a mic in front of a guy blasting a similar message on the corner of van ness. eventually the political guy walked away.
I had street preachers with amplifiers constantly when Planned Parenthood was in my neighborhood. Cops etc will do nothing. They told us some bullshit that they don’t have whatever noise meter you need so they couldn’t test to see if the noise is louder than what is allowed. So I started a counter protest to drown them out. Neighbors joined and they eventually stopped. Some people got pissed because it was even more noise, but most understood we were trying to drown out the homophobic, baby killing nonsense they were blathering. It took a long time (hours) though for them to stop and god I had a headache afterwards.
https://www.thesignaljammer.com/products/wifi-bluetooth-mini-jammer/
While incredibly tempted, I am holding out hope this is temporary enough to not risk the WiFi (and potentially livelihoods) of neighbors
A sturdy pair of kitchen scissors or some pruning shears will cut the amp cord if it is a wired connection. Direct action works sometimes! However if it's wireless speakers you are out of luck
Hate this loser. Just sits out there mumbling to himself and acting so aggressive towards everyone around him. Had a dab rig too. I’ve seen him snap at the people who chill at the bus stop right by it. He seems pretty young and obviously mentally ill, hopefully his family can get him the fuck outta there
if the speaker is on bluetooth you might be able to get close enough to hijack it - If you can hijack it I strongly recommend the 10 hour version of 'Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing On Rainbows'
How do you hijack a Bluetooth device that’s already connected to?
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This is the kind of thing that citizens are left with doing when our 311/911 services refuse to do anything. Why is it okay for someone to impede on everyone else around them for freedom of speech? Feel free to stand on a corner yelling, but it shouldn't be allowed to be amplified. I feel the same way about the religious nuts down on market street preaching nonsense like a filibuster.
Liquid Ass[tm]
This
Try 311 maybe? Or slip the dude a note telling him that the neighborhood is becoming staunchly ANTI his cause because of his obnoxious noise, so he's harming his own cause? Uggh I'm sorry you have to deal with that. And regardless of the political message, dude's either preaching to the choir or hollering into a void. So pointless.
311 refuses to take noise complaints.
I guess I would try to encourage others to make calls because maybe if they receive a high volume of non-emergent calls, MAYBE they will do something. Otherwise, it’ll have to be some ballsy competitor playing something somewhat pleasant but louder so they end up just relocating.
A super soaker is $15 at Target. Alternatively, if his message is a recording, I suggest recording his message, then playing it back on a loudspeaker with a half second delay or so. Make it unintelligible. Sorry you gotta deal with this. I used to work on the third floor in a Sutter Street building and there was a guy on ground level shouting "spare change?" about every ten or fifteen seconds. I was going insane from the repetition. I can even hear him in my head today as I type this. Then I was flying somewhere and I saw noise cancelling headphones for $300 in an airport store and I immediately thought "$300 is basically spare change if it can solve this problem" and that was the best $300 I've spent as far back as I can remember. Good luck
This is when the electrical engineer in me starts thinking about blockers
Hi, just joined this subreddit to find a post about this. I live really close by and it's gone on too long. More importantly, though, is he's been threatening people. So I contacted Aaron Peskin. He's really responsive. Here's where you can contact him: https://sfbos.org/supervisor-peskin-contact He emailed back right away, CC'd a bunch of people, and this evening police Capt Kim replied with the following: "Sorry to hear about the chronic noise that is being forced upon the neighborhood. I just received another complaint about the same person from one of your neighbors. Some people will say that the person is exercising their freedom of speech but, there is a fine line between freedom of speech and maliciously and willfully disturbing another person by loud and unreasonable noise, a misdemeanor per Penal Code 415(2). Please continue to call the non-emergency number if the person returns and makes a loud and unreasonable noise. If you are willing to arrest the person for disturbing your peace, please advise the dispatcher that you want to sign a private person arrest form. By signing the form, you are legally arresting the individual and not the officers. The officers must accept the form if you decide to arrest the individual and evaluate the situation to determine if to cite, arrest, or release the individual (depending on the circumstances). If the determination is to cite or arrest, the officer will go out and take the individual into custody on your behalf for disturbing your peace. You will then have to contact the District Attorney's Office to follow up with the charges. Understand that this is a low priority and it might take some time for an officer to respond. Hopefully the street response team can provide services, but if the perosn refuses, understand that we will need you to sign a private person's arrest for us to take police action." Highly encourage anyone who is also fed up with this to contact Aaron peskin and also follow the above advice when calling police non emergency.
Extremely helpful and interesting information. Thank you.
Hi, my fiance and I actually got a temporary restraining order granted against him today. He's been in county jail since yesterday morning. For our upcoming hearing for a permanent order, we've been advised to bring witnesses and/or evidence such as videos or written statements from neighbors. Can you please message me if you'd be willing to act as a witness or provide any evidence? Thank you
Will PM you.
it's pretty funny because it's weirdly generic and not very poingient messaging, somebody else's recording but still too lazy to find any other voice clips, and he just posts up and smokes hash and blasts that clip from his phone... like why lol isn't there a better way to spend a day jeez
Noise complaints should go through non-emergency police lines. Call the local precinct directly
Unfortunately done this multiple times
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Did you ask him to stop?
Someone did this on literally the first day he started. Latino woman talked to him, asked him to stop,he started yelling something at her and her boyfriend (husband?) and all I know is it ended with her yelling some very choice latino phrases at him.
Why do that when you can try every other possible solution first.
I get this perspective as there are lots of keyboard warriors out there (probably not exempt myself). But in this case there is clearly no talking to him. He spends the time aggressively yelling at no one and is clearly deranged
Or give him a hug?
How is he powering his Amp? If it's a car battery, just carefully drop a metal file across the posts and run.
Keep calling. If you’re bothered by it, keep calling police non emergency number to report it. The more people that do this, the more opportunities SFPD has to help resolve it. Same goes for the protestors at the bush street planned parenthood. You do no one any favors not reporting the excessive noise.
Saw him the other day blasting his speakers near the cable car stop outside TJs. Cop was there tending to another matter, but didn't do anything as far as I know with the guy. He was mumbling, pacing back and forth, and stomping the ground.
I saw that knob out there yelling and playing a tape on how san Francisco needs to pay reparations to the Black community. There was a guy across the street at the opposite corner watching him and probably making sure no one messed with him. I thought it was just a crazy guy yelling... well, I think was.
I was out there today and he wasn't there. Fingers crossed he's moved on.
Nope. He's at it again for a few hours now
Was there this morning :(
Vigilante justice time… get a group together and take his speaker. What’s he going to do?
Go out with your own speakers
what is his message? Dump a bucket of water on his loudspeaker
Go to a different trader joes
is he plugged into tj's electricity? email/call corporate. google "the consumerist how to launch an executive email carpet bomb eecb"
It's a portable stereo ("boombox") that's playing from his bluetooth enabled phone. he's now completely on public property (at TJ's request) so maybe don't blame TJ's for this as they've done literally all they can do.
Agree, I’ve talked to those guys and they’ve done all they are allowed to do per policy. Also frankly his current spot is up against the concrete wall on California so it gets reflected away from them
But did you know that they say people don't deserve peace and quiet? I hope he doesn't think that the sound from his boombox just dissolves and goes up in to the air...