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Home Depot in LA installs noise machines that ‘penetrate bones’ to deter day laborers (www.theguardian.com)
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Advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots

A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday.

The Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA), an advocacy organization that helps day laborers, called for the removal of these machines from Home Depot's Cypress Park location, according to the Los Angeles Times

Advocates for day laborers also demanded that Home Depot speak out against ICE raids in store parking lots. Immigration enforcement agents have repeatedly targeted the Cypress Park location, which is located near one of IDEPSCA's support hubs, the Times reported.

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[–] 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's an even more fundamental flaw to this plan: who wants to go shop somewhere that has a fucking LRAD blasting people on the way in? Even if I was the type of idiot that shopped at home depot instead of any other big box home improvement store, I would immediately go to a competitor that didn't actively irritate their customers for no reason.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Yes I cannot fathom how they can do this without also assaulting customers. Not that that’s the main thing wrong with it. It’s just a case of people seeing other people and sneering “those fucking people - look, they’re existing again!”

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