A couple of things:
- The opening shot is Matthew Meinecke, who hasn’t been one of the street preachers cranking a megaphone at T-Mobile Park for a couple of weeks. He’s loud and annoying, but not AS loud and annoying as the three who have been there at almost every home game lately. The short clip of Matthew being relatively “quiet” might not convey how much it hurts people’s ears as they’re walking in.
- The clip showed Matthew saying “For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son…” which also underplays how offensive some of the stuff is that the preachers say the rest of the time. (Ugly stuff about other “false religions” like Islam and Mormonism, graphic descriptions of torture in Hell, and the usual bullshit about gay and trans people.)
- King5 happened to go there today, when two of the usual street preachers (Ron Cardiel and some other guy whose name I don’t know) happened not to show up, so it was just one guy named John who probably is the loudest and most annoying. As mentioned in the story, a random bystander did either damage his megaphone or steal some piece of his equipment. John followed the culprit for a bit, but he got slowed down because his huge signs about Hell kept getting caught in the sidewalk trees, so he lost him. So he went home around 6 and then I left too.
- Regarding the Mariners running a survey about people’s experience with the noise – as people have said on that other thread, regardless of how you feel about the preacher, it should make us uncomfortable that the only way to get SPD to do something is if a private company exerts pressure because they’re losing money. Either the preachers are violating the noise ordinance or they’re not; it shouldn’t depend on the survey results.
- At the same time, I’ve been part of groups that have protested outside venues sometimes (e.g. when Jordan Peterson spoke at the paramount) and I would be against an ordinance that banned all amplified noise. I had a megaphone and I was only using it to be loud enough to be heard by a larger group than I could reach with my normal voice, but not loud enough to hurt anyone’s ears.
- Seems like a confusing editing choice that the reporter said “We caught up with a fan who has gotten a little bit creative in sharing their message opposed to this loud noise”, and then cut to a close-up of me talking. Which leaves the viewer thinking, what the hell is the “creative” part? (Earlier in the piece, they did show me holding the “Big Dumper” sign for a few seconds, but a lot of viewers might not connect that it’s the same guy.)
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