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# Letter: Late-night noise from transients more annoying than police sirens
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/030307-story-20070303-5/
- Published: 2007-03-03T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:11:22.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

“THE POLICE CARS AND HELICOPTERS are a lot less annoying than the sounds of the bums who go around in the middle of the night with their drunken ranting and their noisy shopping carts and going through the trash and yelling at each other for no reason at all. That’s the more annoying sound than the police and their sirens.”

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 3, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/030307.pdf?ref=smdp.com)