McDonald’s store blasts bagpipe music for 24 HOURS a day to ward off homeless people – but the incessant blaring has left its Sacramento neighbors fed up
- A McDonald’s restaurant in Sacramento, California blasted bagpipe music to ward off homeless people from outside its restaurant 24/7, say residents
- The restaurant in Sacramento’s midtown resorted to the tactic after others did the same. A 7 Eleven in Hollywood played classical to achieve the same results
- Similarly, a 24-hour convenience store in Sacramento replaced the classics with a high-pitch tone
- Apparently, contacting cops helped to stop the bagpipes, said neighbor Arnold Phillips. ‘The first couple of days they had it on 24/7,’ he said
- ‘If we wouldn’t have said anything or reported it to the police, they would have had that thing going on still,’ he adds.
A 24-hour McDonald’s in California blasted bagpipe music in an unsuccessful attempt to ward away homeless people from outside its restaurant – and ended up infuriating neighbors instead.
The McDonald’s in midtown Sacramento played the Scottish music 24/7, but the homeless people were visibly still sticking around.
Finally, the music stopped when neighbors complained.
‘If we wouldn’t have said anything or reported it to the police, they would have had that thing going on still,’ said Arnold Phillips, who lives across the street, reports KOVR.
This McDonald’s in midtown Sacramento, California, resorted to broadcasting bagpipe music to ward off homeless people from outside the restaurant
The broadcasts of the music didn’t seem to work since homeless people were visibly still hanging around the restaurant
The music stopped, for now, after neighbors like Arnold Phillips (pictured) complained on Friday, the Sacramento Police Department confirms to DailyMail.com
The Sacramento Police Department confirmed to DailyMail.com that residents had complained on Friday about the bagpipes, and that cops alerted the restaurant.
‘We have not been contacted by residents in the that area regarding the sounds of bagpipes since,’ a spokesman told DailyMail.com.
There’s no word on whether the music stopped permanently.
McDonald’s did not immediately respond when DailyMail.com reached out.
The tactic of using weaponized sound was similarly employed by other establishments, including a 7 Eleven in West Hollywood that broadcast classical music in the hopes of shooing away homeless people, reports KOVR.
A 7 Eleven in Sacramento, however, decided to replace the classics with a high-pitched tone.
A 7 Eleven in Sacramento, however, decided to replace the classics with a high-pitched tone
Meanwhile, Phillips said the bagpipes had penetrated his home.
‘We can hear it [when] I’m trying to watch TV or whatever and it’s going through that,’ Phillips told KOVR.
Nate Dewitt, his downstairs neighbor, also had similar gripes.
‘You know, I turn off the leaf blower and I could still hear the bagpipes coming and it’s just constant,’ Dewitt said.
Nate Dewitt, also a neighbor to the Sacramento McDonald’s also had similar gripes about the bagpipes.
Even the restaurant’s patrons were upset. ‘It was offensive to me because it was just so annoying,’ Susan Smart said
Even the restaurant’s patrons were upset.
‘It was offensive to me because it was just so annoying,’ Susan Smart told KOVR.