It's meant to drive away vagrants. Instead it's driving neighbourhood residents crazy.

A TD Canada Trust ATM at Front Street East and Jarvis Street in downtown Toronto has been emitting an ear-splitting high-pitched noise for the past month -- and repeated attempts to get it fixed have fallen on deaf ears.

Local resident Gary Raitch says he can hear it in his apartment.

"It's just a nauseating annoying noise that doesn't stop," Raitch said. "I can hear it in my den. In the middle of the night when I'm on the computer. If there's not much traffic outside, I can actually hear the noise."

The noise is called a "a vagrant deterrent system" and is meant to keep vagrants from hunkering down inside the ATM booth.
But for people living within earshot of the St. Lawrence Market it's an earsore.

After a call from CBC News, TD Canada Trust promised to fix the alarm. A spokesperson says it took the bank a while to get back to Carvelli because it could only reach his answering machine.

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