Instead, she found a large speaker blaring out the disembodied howls as police and attorneys looked on — all part of an unusual “test” that was conducted for a civil lawsuit against the city.
“It was so jarring,” Robbins said, noting that the screams continued playing for an hour, even after children started getting dropped off at a day care on the block. “It was just really awful.”
“So Mr. Hicks’s lawyers devised a test," Murphy wrote. “And with no warning to the people who live and work near Broad and Passyunk in South Philadelphia, the lawyers played a looped recording of a woman screaming. At 122 decibels. For an hour. At 5:30 a.m.”
That’s way louder than most people can scream.
“Although human screams are typically 80–100 dB , the loudest recorded scream was heard at 121.7 dB in 1994. Keep reading to learn more about the screaming potential of humans and how long you can be exposed to a scream before experiencing hearing damage.”
Bastards.
