Scope of the issue

Scope of the issue:

I have logged the days that Target Distribution Center's yard trucks are active and blasting the above-mentioned neighborhoods with their unjustifiable backup beepers. (See Unjustifiable for alternative system.) It is approximately fifty percent of the time, day or night, any day of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays.

The yard-trucks can be active for three or four days at a time, and two days in a row of no activity has long been the maximum. See the "Daily log" page for a sample two-month log.

It is a demonstrable fact that, over the course of a given month, the backup beepers on Target Distribution Center's yard-trucks account for more than 98 percent of the backup beeper noise in our neighborhood.

Seemingly, every time I've wanted to be outside or even have a window open, I've been blasted by Target's unjustifiable backup beepers. That "fifty percent of the time" can seem like much more.

In fact, even though my house is 0.4 mile from the Target yard, I plainly hear the beepers through my closed double-pane windows. There is no possibility of tuning them out. The beepers wake me up in the middle of the night, even with my windows closed.

A mere reduction of backup beeper noise emanating from Target would not be enough. There is no reason we should hear any backup beeper noise coming from them. The beeper paradigm is hysteria -- panic-stricken idiocy -- by idiots, for idiots.

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Play the video on the left to hear what it sounded like outside my morning window before Target invaded.

Play the video on the right to hear what it sounds like
when Target's backup beepers are blasting the neighborhood.