'It's unbearable': Seattle residents upset over loud music playing from Ross store
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2024
- Living or working in Downtown Seattle can be noisy at times but it's expected in a large city.
Since before Christmas, through those typical sounds comes a different noise that has become a nuisance for many.
"It's constantly in our ears. I'm constantly singing 'Eye of the Tiger' all day long," said Evelyn McCarty regarding the loud music coming from outside the Ross store at 3rd and Pike.
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Seattle is a daycare center with no adults in the room.
at least its safer than half the cities in the south
Just a few blocks away there is abandoned storefront/ parking garage that uses outdoor speakers to play classical music and if I'm not mistaken it may be on motion detectors. There are no tents or loitering foil heads around that block!
Aaaahh. It suddenly makes sense!
But the cops let landlord torture and harm paying tenants, FORCING them into homelessness and destroying lives. Would you like the cops to let this happen to you and your family?
It'll make sense when we set up speakers and play the same song over and over on a loop outside of your window. You'll finally get it.
@@jb5music is someone forcing you to live there? I'm confused.
@@patrickm4935True, how about I play the same sound over and over and over again right outside your home? You can't get mad because, like you said, you don't have to live there.
Keeps the vagrants, homeless, and drug users from setting their tents up on the sidewalk and loitering. It's genius.
Shut up and deal with it baby loser. . You didnt want rent paying tenants, now you are all at risk of suffering the same harm they have , and the harm and crimes the cops and authorities allowed landlord trash to do to them. This includes threats,intimidation, deceit, coercion, assault, abuse, torture, theft of home and property and breaking of bones. Do you or a relative want to experience these same legal yet harmful acts?
they didn't mention that in the reporting... most likely though.. I saw a youtube video where NYC is doing the same tactic .. not noise but something similar
What they need to play is songs by Ray Conniff, Percy Faith, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Diana Krall, Michael Bublé, Montovani. Basically, play easy listening music to deter crime.
bro homeIess peopIe Iives in downtown, near the highways, under the bridges. They know how to Iive with noise around.
@@dogbsas I'm familiar with inner workings of Seattle. Lol
They'll set up shop anywhere. The repetitive music keeps them away. Even they like to sleep at some point.
I could be wrong, but with the right speakers or soundsystem, they can direct the sound towards the sidewalk but still keep it at a tolerable level for residence. Maybe hire an audio tech with an understanding in physics and sound
Funny, they tolerate homeless zombies but not loud music that keeps the zombies away.
uh, because it's a lot easier ignoring homeless on the street than ignoring constant sound from your home.
@@emmakai2243 that's only be played because of the homeless and crime! Y'all a bunch of children lol
first world problems@@emmakai2243
@@Super_V12 No kidding. Weird comment, what's even your point?
Yup, and that is the problem. People are getting used to these zombies shitting, pissing, walking around naked. And people are more offended by music… this wouldn’t be a problem if Washington states leadership was not so weak. @@emmakai2243
You can't blame Ross for trying to do something about the the dozens of open drug users right in front of their store. At night it might be more than a hundred drug users at a time. I get that the music is a nuisance for the residents and I would be upset too. However, I would be upset at the rampant open drug use and how its getting worse, not better. You are right in front of this human misery with people suffering beyond belief while living in the richest country in the world and living in one of the most expensive cities in the world. You pay over $2,000 a month for a 1 bed room and a block away you have people overdoing everyday from a drug of which a dose costs less than an apple at the nearby Whole Foods you go for groceries. Very bizarre that not a single person interviewed in this report even talked about this unless of course it was edited out.
Everyone is responsible for their own choices. These residents should not have to worry about other grown adults making stupid life choices. This is about a noise disruption
@@garyoak1670Right on. Stop making excuses for these bums.
They could hire security.......... trespass people....... 😂
@@geoffcarroll05 Om the sidewalk? How does that work?
I'm one of the tenants in the article. I am also sympathetic to the homeless situation. And I fully understand the owner's reasoning for the music - to disperse the intended crowd. However, it DOES NOT WORK! Anytime of the day or night, regardless of the weather - or the type of music playing, people are gathered in front of Ross. Before the music switched over to the "easy listening" piano crap, I would hear people on the sidewalk SINGING ALONG! Not quite a deterrent, is it? To @RealRaksidelic's comment about not talking about the "issue" during the interview, you're right. We didn't address it. It wasn't the point of the story. However, if you want to solicit the news media about doing a story on this subject, I will gladly offer to be interviewed and express my thoughts on how the homeless issue could be addressed.
Music or the fentanyl junkies 🤔
Because science says fentanyl users hate music above all else 🤷🏽♀️
just not eye of the tiger from 4:00AM-8:00PM. At least play a radio station?
Apprently its both
@@ayotushinde keeps them from setting up tents or staying there for a prolonged time. It's genius since the city does nothing about the homeless population.
Europe's The Final Countdown
Wow with everything going wrong in Seattle.. I never would guess this to be a priority.🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
It's one of the problems.
Funny how the Seattle city council can lobby the train companies to stop blowing their train horns in the city but can’t stop Ross from playing loud music …. Go figure
Well how many shooters on that block in the last 3 years. Even when the FBI did the drug sting nothing changed
Oh, the music forced them out? It wasn't that complete lawlessness and nonsense that is allowed to continue because we feel bad to arrest and prosecute criminals?
Lawlessness? Have you been to Seattle? It's a wonderful city you should really visit, on second thought no don't. They're better without dummies.
If the noise keeps away the homeless drug addicts, then it's working the way it's supposed to. But maybe Ross should just put Yoko Ono music on the speakers. That would really do the job.
Well said.
😂😂😂😂
I hear Barry Manilow also works wonders.... "Music and passion were always the fashion" - Copacabana
Classic!
Mix in some Slim Whitman
You know what might be nice in a news story? Telling us why they are playing the music... like what is the deal? I have an idea, but a news story should explain a situation and not assume everyone already knows what's up.
Sometimes, arguably most of the time, the news responsibility is just telling people what's happening so the community is aware.
lol these progressives wouldn’t dare. Ross just close. Relocate. Get out of there
Isn’t there such a thing as lawful quiet hours after 11 p.m.?
Yep. Section 25-08 of the Seattle municipal code. Seattle Quiet Hours are as followed;
Between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. during weekdays, and between the hours of 10 p.m. and 9 a.m. on weekends and legal holidays.
@@thecreator772the entire law:
25.08.420 - Modifications to exterior sound level limits
A. Between the hours of 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. during weekdays, and between the hours of 10 p.m. and 9 a.m. on weekends and legal holidays, the exterior sound level limits established by Section 25.08.410 are reduced by 10 dB(A) where the receiving property lies within a **residential district** of the City.
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I doubt anyone would consider downtown a residential district, so probably doesn't apply here. The sound level falls within the acceptable range. Annoying but legal.
I live in quiet West Seattle. I haven’t gone down town since they put in the parking meters on the street.
@@robwastman4993 Smart person.
Seattle City Council needs to step up and pass ordinances to alleviate both the noise problem and the loitering problem and allow law enforcement to do their job. This would be a win in so many ways.
Sounds like a new karaoke spot, happy hour anyone?
The same people would complain when the music is gone and the homeless druggies come back to the area. Can't please everyone.
Umm except they are still all there!
druggies don't notice it...
@@user-uu5oy2br5e are they there all day when the music is playing or do they come when it gets turned off at closing? Has the music had any effect on the amount of people loitering? I'm genuinely curious. It seems to be an effective solution for some small businesses in San Francisco where I live. They play classical music on a loop.
They should at least take requests.
You have the sketchy folks to thank for this b/c its why Ross plays that odious loud music.
It doesn't seem to have an effect on them, but it pisses off so many people, they think it's a good idea.
Demand that Mayor Harrell and the City Council members stand outside of Ross and demand that they change the ordinance accordingly. These elected officials are being paid to do a job for public safety and they need to be held accountable for their failures.
Everybody living there helped vote this problem into existence... How do they propose Ross defend itself?
Demand they do something about homeless tents first. Music magically goes away after that I guarantee it.
Wait loud music is a massive felony case but drug dealing and living I. Front of store in street and burglary and assaults is fine?
Lol. Marxism is a helluva drug. You just enforce the laws you want
@@jrey6186the money would stop
I wonder why Ross blasts the music? The story strangely fails to address the why.
Regardless of if we are taking about the homeless or illegals, it is OK to tell people that they're not welcome here and they should leave. Our inability or unwillingness to do that is producing these passive aggressive methods like playing loud music or putting sharp rocks on the ground. This just irritates everyone. My dream is that one day government will work for the common man who actually pays their taxes rather than special interest representing some fringe group.
I imagine as long as society has existed, there will always be people outside the system (ie homeless/illegals/criminals) where the common citizen will have to subsidize these "solutions".....Government's only viable answers to outliers are long-term rehabilitation, imprisonment, or forcing them out so they are another community's problem, all requiring tax-payer money. I don't envy any gov't official's responsibility.
Society's waiting for the next "Einstein" to fiure out a new idea.
I used to live across the street from the art museum facing first Ave. There was another building next to it that had a small art studio that would loop the same music all day, and a few times they left it on all night and I almost flipped out. I was also in the path of the dreaded and thankfully defunct "Ride the Ducks" bus, and had to hear "Iiiiiiiiiit's the Hammering Man!!!!" while MC "Hammer"'s "U Can't Touch This" blasted out from the speakers, repeated every 15 or so minutes.
Thankfully I got to enjoy living downtown as a young adult in the early 2010s before it got too bad. It's totally out of my system, now the further away I can get from noise and other people, the better!
They do this in a lot of cities. Dallas, Los Angeles, you name it. A 7-Eleven down the street from me keeps the classical music going, but it's not so loud that it can be heard beyond the parking lot, but loud enough to keep loiterers and homeless from camping out in front. Los Angeles's metro system keeps the music going in some subway stations, but lowered the volume because passengers were complaining it's too loud. Maybe Ross can use smaller speakers but spaced closer together Have it more directed to the problem, as the problem is not nearby apartment buildings.
That would be friken annoying 😂
All these people complaining on this video probably vote blue and allow the mess that is Seattle. Vote better and maybe the city will clean up.
I know one of them, you’re dead wrong on your political assumptions here. He is a GOP donor. He said they cut out most of his interview where he calls out the Dems/mismanagement. Don’t always assume someone’s political position based on where they live.
Something tells me that Ross will say either they are allowed to continue the loud music or they will shut this location down altogether. Then it becomes a matter of what i$$$$ the bigger priority.
That Ross store has been there long before the apartments across the street.
And?
People of the neighborhood should stand in front of the store saying how rude they are!!!
It's so you don't hear them taking care of shop lifters in the back room.😂
There is a 7-11 store in Los Angeles which plays Toto's "Africa" all day long to keep the homeless away. It seems to work.
If it keeps homeless away play away!!
I can’t believe it is louder closer to the speaker that’s unbelievable I would’ve never thought that😂😂😂
I got a suitcase for a great price at that Ross years ago while there on business. I'm glad to see them doing well still.
How much do you think rent is in any apartment you could hear it from?
Where I live in California, at 10 PM any noise that goes past the edge of the property is actionable.
It seems that the music stops by then at this Ross. But in some businesses in SF where I live they play it 24 hours as long as it's at a certain decibel. The residents don't mind because it keeps the loitering to a minimum thus ensuring more safety and less crime.
Noisy. lol. This person who said this clearly has never lived in NYC.
Thanks for letting people know now to move there!
They can deal with the crime but they draw the line on the loud music? I bet if it was hip hop or gangsta rap they would get no complaints.
Why cant the speaker wires get cut???
Ain't nothin' gonna happen 'til the local residents rise up and 'deal' w/ it....
Sleepless in Seattle! ❤
For the same reason it was annoying working inside ross. Annoying store playlist
The usual Seattle “they/thems” more upset about music than the fact they have a horde of zombies loitering and doing drugs all day where they live.
I get it. I live on Othello right on the main road next to the train tracks. It's loud, sirens blast by every hour 24/7. It was very frustrating at first but I got earplugs for the really bad nights and it's very very effective
Its amazing that these people are complaining about the music but completely ok with the junkies walking around around like zombies. I work downtown.
7-Eleven used Baby Shark, deal with it when the city won't.
Well someone needs to remove the speakers. And Ross store owner needs to have respect for tenants that live in the city of Seattle.
They're doing the tenants a huge favor. The music keeps the vagrants from setting up tents and loitering forever.
The city won't be a place people will want to live and visit if stores close and move due to the unhoused people openly doing drugs outside their businesses. People need to stand up and support their city and come up with solutions so it's a win/win for both tax paying citizens and businesses.
It's noisy outside my home as well. I deal with it.
I live on the eastside,A Ross here has continuous messages not in the language of the United States.English.
Eye of the tiger... They also play a cover of Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" repeatedly. Yesterday i heard a Shania Twain song, which brought back memories. Personally I like that they're playing music, even though it can be repetitive. But if I lived on that block I suppose it would be annoying at all hours. I'd be more annoyed with the constant loitering.
Turn it up ross louder
They cannot disturb the peace
" Where is Rocky baboa he's the eye of the tiger 😅"! I can only imagine.
That’s what I was thinking, hate even walking by there, so annoying!
It's always good to have music playing over the loud speakers. People need to have some fun.
I am a long time bus rideer of King county Metro I cash my buses right there in front of Ross that loud annoying music the homeless population surrounding but this is third AVe
Catch your bus at Seneca
1:14 JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS !!!!!
WHAT ?!?!?
Imagine working thete ..
Seattle has too many other problems to be worrying about this. Get real!
Imagine that? Louder at the speaker than downtown traffic.
F*ckin’ Genius!
Scientific discovery the music is louder near the speaker😂
I've seen so many people poop in front of that building the eye of the tiger ain't that big
Its not even that loud I go there to transfer buses. Maybe do something about all the druggies I have to step over. Those apartments are by target so how exactly can you hear it 1 block away?
Isn't Target closing? I thought I heard that. My daughter and her friend were in Seattle for a concert over the summer and Target did not have public bathrooms due to the activities in the area.
you'd think the people with money in the high rises have good soundproof windows.
Which Seattle residents? The ones that sleep on the sidewalks by Ross?
I understand the purpose, but don't agree with the store's solution.
A Fred Meyer in Portland was playing music like this until neighbors told them to stop and they did
I will not be shopping at Ross until after the music stops
I've seen the people lined up along the wall doing drugs in the open, not caring if young children are around to see. How do you feel about that? Do you think that is acceptable and they should be left alone or do you feel the city should take care of the loitering so Ross turns the music off?
this would drive me insane
I'm literally laughing. This is the part of Seattle you can't stand.
omg, I hope no ones shoot at those speakers.
The music volume is a direct result of rampant drug use
I get it! Change the station! Anything on a loop will drive you insane
(Old boss had Guns and Roses playing constantly. It was horrendous for anyone who worked there)
Ross. The only store that has more product on the dressing room floors than on racks... Always keeping it classy😂
I am more shocked that Ross is still in business. I swear I don’t know a single person who shops there. I haven’t stepped foot in to a Ross in like 20 years.
My local Ross always has people in it. As the cost of living crisis has worsened if anything I see more people shopping at Ross. Unfortunately, my local Ross also seems to get clothing sized proportional to the average American instead of the Average local in my city so it only has good selection for certain segments of our community.
I don't shop at this Ross because the checkout line takes forever
Ross, cross dress for less
That’s the least of Seattles problem right now
They played the some xmas music non sot for over 2 months
I would play a music loop of Yakety Yak and Yakety Sax.
Seattle sucks.....let's be honest folks, Seattle is going down. It's nothing like it used to be. Downtown used to be THE PLACE to take out of town visitors. I'm ashamed to take them down there these days. You risk your life and now ear damage. Yeah it keeps the homeless from hanging around, but it ruins life for the average worker that has to suffer working in that crime ridden area known as downtown. I guess Amazon will eventually own the entire area after everyone leaves.
I feel like every one of those people helped create this problem with their votes.
Wrong. I know one of them and he does not vote blue.
😂 homeless tents, people dying in the cold on the streets, drugs for sale on streets to addicts that are miserable , crime exploding throughout Seattle….but it’s the loud music from Ross that upsets people 😂
If there taking request, please play Baby 🦈. 😉
I like the Ross music
Those addicts are so annoying... I moved away from 2nd Yesler because the shootings, the takeovers, addicts, and homeless ppl...
Corporations ruined Seattle
yes especially the two biggest ones......and when they go belly up.....we will have to pay for it for decades and all of those transplants will be long gone
Corporations aren’t handing out needles or opening methadone clinics. The city and county are though. These politicians love pets
Progressives ruined Seattle.
@@mjones1665Boeing, MS, Amazn are all equally responsible for the massive inequality in the Puget sound region, the total collapse of the middle class, destruction of the unions, and corruption of the city/state govt. Anyone who lives here is well aware of this.
What a dumbo!
How much is ross paying for them to look the other way
I fought a similar battle with bucket drummers and the Hard Rock Cafe 10 years ago (!!) and moved. The noise ordinance is meaningless, the cops won't enforce it because the City does not prosecute. You really see how little the City cares about people who are paying their taxes and signing their paychecks. I would not move back to that area for anything.
Bucket drummers are obnoxious. I had to hear that garbage (which only the tourists appreciate, and for about 20 seconds) every time I left the Red Line station at Hollywood and Highland. Almost as bad as the dancing-in-your-personal-space 'It's Showtime!' buskers on the subway train itself.
LOL, what a report. People talking about music that's always playing, without actually letting us hear it for ourselves.
The Bremerton 7-Eleven plays classical music and it works in preventing loitering and drug activity. They could also play the theme song from "Cops"...😂
They should play Boku No Pico theme song.
Might as well give them the whole city. Ross is fed up with out front. They losing costumer's and its unsafe out front of Ross. Good idea with the music thing in my opinion. If people feel they have to move out ,then they should be goin to city officials about the front of Ross instead.
Brilliant. As per countless commenters down below... they've alluded to the fact that they wouldn't mind if we go into THEIR neighborhoods right next to THEIR houses... where WE don't even live... and blast loud music on a loop tape all day long to get rid of homeless people that are miles from where we stay.
Seattle 😊
Noise Pollution is a major problem, even from muscle cars. Not really addressed in many city code ordinances.
lol and they dont even mention that the homeless problem is whats causing the music to have to be played. They didnt lie, they just didnt tell the whole story. which is honestly 10x more evil.
Hmmm...louder near speaker than away from it🧐🕵♂🤯......That's some crack reporting there 👍
I love Public Image, Ltd.'s song SEATTLE.
They talk about all the noise then zoom to a quiet electric trolley bus, not the sharpest people putting together this non-story.
So these resident/pedestrians are fed up on the music but not the homeless/drug addicts loitering around the area.. lmao 😂
I am curious to see what the downfall will be if/when they lower their music 😂