Frustrated by the unhoused population in his neighborhood, a Santa Monica man has developed a chirping deterrent that he believes bothers transients enough that they will find another place to camp out.
Stephen McMahon, who has lived in Santa Monica for decades, calls his motion-sensing device the Blue Chirper because of the blue strobe light and cricket-like noise it emits.
“I call it diversion security, that is we’re diverting them away from our 20-block radius somewhere else,” McMahon told KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo…