- Two times this week I biked past a parked car and it emitted a horrible high pitched buzzing at me. I'm guessing it's supposed to be an anti-theft mechanism(entirely unnecessary in a Midwest suburb). I of course had no intention of stealing the car, but the noise triggers a desire to do other things to the car. I guess the owner is lucky I'm not an angsty teenager.
There's so much unnecessary noise pollution in our society, it makes me really sad.
by altairprime
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- Someone installed one of these at a shop in SFbay a couple years ago and I tracked it down, took an SPL recording snapshot, and emailed the city to report a violation of noise laws with the proof. The noisemaker was physically uninstalled after a few weeks and did not return. So, presumably Home Depot is violating LA Noise Ordinance, and could reasonably be expected to accrue fines or even forced to cease operating their retail business on that property, given a properly filed code violation report; and, since any persistent sound levels necessary to cause discomfort are almost certainly an OSHA violation, a side copy to the relevant Home Depot worker unions in LA/Cali/US might produce a rather significant result as well.
- I am confused about the situation. Can someone with more context please explain? Is HomeDepot forcing their own workers off the parking lot? Or are there some other workers there? What do they do on a parking lot? Are they in cars or on foot? Why do they stay on the parking lot the whole day, if they are not HomeDepot employees?
- I've been trying to use Home Depot less, and other hardware stores about whom I don't know as many obnoxious facts more. I guess I'll step that up.
by Brian_K_White
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- Home Depot making themselves less useful for their own customers. Galaxy brain.
For the apparenly many people who are baffled by this, it's not like this is some unrelated activity that Home Depot doesn't benefit from. It's super convenient to go pick up both the paint and the painters from the same place at the same time without even any planning. No emails or phone calles or coordinating schedules.
by JKCalhoun
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- Yeah, well I won't be going to Home Despot any longer.
I'd love to know the tech (and company) that provided the devices.
- I've been battling noise at the workplace and in my neighborhood for decades. Some useful resources:
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse - https://nonoise.org/
Acoustilog Incorporated - https://acoustilog.com/
Of special note are the legal caveats one must consider to prevail in a lawsuit. (https://acoustilog.com/daniel.html) Consistent documentation is key.
Maine Code of Rules - Control of Noise
https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/maine/06-096-C-M-R-c...
Note document search terms "tonal" and "one-third octave".
by drivebyhooting
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- I hired day laborers loitering outside HD before and got scammed.
by randycupertino
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- https://archive.ph/g16NX
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by charcircuit
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- >The noise is in earshot of IDEPSCA’s day laborer center
I find it misleading to add this line in the article without mentioning if the decibels exceed the applicable noise ordinances, or situation this is just people on HD's property complaining about the noise they are making on their own property. In that case people are free not to visit.
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