A 7-Eleven in Portland is using high-pitched buzzing to keep homeless people away from the store

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• A 7-Eleven in Portland, Oregon, received a noise violation after blasting a high-pitched buzzing noise from its speakers. 
• Manager Madhur Sharma said the store played the noise to deter homeless people from sleeping overnight. 
• Homeless advocates called the move dehumanizing and suggested it could make "life harder for people on the margins."

A 7-Eleven in Portland, Oregon, is trying to rid its store of homeless people by blasting high-pitched buzzing from speakers.

Portland noise control officer Paul van Orden told KGW8 that the city has received multiple complaints about the noise, which he said was played twice as loud as city's legal limit.

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