Montreal Mall Blasts Baby Shark to Deter Homeless People

• 1:09:02Montreal mall plays Baby Shark in hallways and stairwells to keep homeless people from sleeping there.
• 1:10:12Tim's earlier bit about cities turning public spaces into Super Mario Bros levels with hostile design—spikes, obstacles, mechanical Koopas—to prevent homeless people from sitting or lying down.
• 1:11:08The mall is now hiring social workers for dialogue with homeless people, but Tim notes the intake and consultation process doesn't actually work.
• 1:11:41Tim imagines the job of the guy whose task is to blast Baby Shark at homeless people in the corridor, comparing it to Abu Ghraib torture tactics using loud music.
• 1:12:48The mall definitely wouldn't use Baby Shark if it didn't work—they tested it one night, turned it up, and watched homeless people start moving out of the stairwell immediately.
• 1:13:18Baby Shark has 15 billion YouTube views, and Tim suggests some of those views are from homeless people being kicked out of stairwells.

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