A business owner in Los Angeles has devised an unusual method to deter homeless individuals from setting up camps near his property by continuously playing a children’s song.
“They played ‘Baby Shark’ all through the night,” shared Tracy, a resident of an encampment next to the establishment located at the intersection of West 11th and Main streets, with NBC4 Los Angeles. “They’re trying everything they can to make us relocate or drive us insane. It’s definitely achieving the latter, making everyone lose their sanity.”
The proprietors installed a loudspeaker aimed at the encampment to blast the song, which Tracy reported had prevented herself and others from sleeping throughout the night.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, and people at a homeless encampment in California, right (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images and Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)
Newsom’s office told Fox News Digital that the governor has “actively held communities accountable who do not follow state law to address homelessness”, sharing an example of when the state sued the City of Norwalk in 2024 for “its unlawful ban on homeless shelters.”
The governor’s office added that, while national homelessness went up by nearly 7% last year, California’s increase was only 0.45% and was lower than those of 44 other states.
“Governor Newsom is the first governor to actively address this issue in our state, and he is reversing a crisis that was decades in the making,” Newsom’s office said.
Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, homicides, national crime cases, illegal immigration, and more. Story tips and ideas can be sent to stepheny.price@fox.com
