Totally avoidable. Unfortunately for the owner. All he had to do is play that song “All I want for Christmas is a Hippo” or whatever the title actually is, over and over again. At loud volume. They would have moved on promptly.
Some businesses in Upstate New York have resorted to blasting classical music from their speakers to keep the riffraff away
The “It’s a small world” song from Disney world would have the same effect.
When I was a kid we used to cruise the car washes. We would go by slow, turn off the key, punch the throttle once and turn the key back on. It would cause a very loud backfire and make all the gangsters hit the ground on their bellies. Worked every time. They stopped coming around because it made them too nervous and paranoid. lol
“All he had to do is play that song “All I want for Christmas is a Hippo”...”
Accordion music. No one would be so horible as to use bagpipes.
It would have driven off customers as well. Hard to run a business without customers. Ever tried it?
We have a commercial on the radio for Cars For Kids where this flat lined kid is singing accompanied by a guitar. You play that one loud enough and they’d be gone in a minute; it’d be a good one to play in an interrogation room. Just let the person sit there listening to it for just a few minutes and they’d confess to sinking the Titanic.
Play Classical Music over a loudspeaker, that will do the trick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPm0o04lGE
may God have mercy on their souls!