Homeless People Sprayed With Water As They Sleep On British Streets
Homeless people are finding British streets to be increasingly hostile places for rough sleepers who say they are being targeted with “deliberate noise pollution”, “defensive architecture,” and attempts to spray them with water as they sleep. According to the homelessness charity Crisis, 20 percent of homeless people that they surveyed claimed to have experienced deliberate attempts to disturb their sleep and force them away from public spaces. RT reports: Respondents to the survey said these measures included playing loud music, bird song and traffic noise from speakers, as well as metal spikes embedded into infrastructure. John, one of 458 people Crisis spoke to who were sleeping rough or have slept rough in the last year, said he has experienced noise pollution in a tunnel that prevented him sleeping there. Bystanders “rifled” through homeless man’s pockets as he froze to death in Birmingham https://t.co/kTH6sitToa pic.twitter.com/gZQZDIwrqb — RT UK (@RTUKnews) December 2, 2016 “You just couldn’t sleep, because of the noise, it was boats, trains, bird noises, animal noises, it was strange, it was altogether, you know, and it was weird, it was horrible,” he said. Steve, also homeless, said the noise “wasn’t music it was like, bird’s noises, boats… and then [...]
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