Advice needed:

The other day when I was busking at a great spot (solo fiddle with no amplification) a panhandler who uses a wheelchair parked a couple of metres away from me and started playing a battery-operated stereo quite loudly - loudly enough that I couldn't play well or reasonably expect anyone to enjoy the sound of our competing sounds.

I was very angry, but took the only option that I could see: leaving the spot.

I've been thinking about this a lot. As I've mentioned, in Ottawa we buskers talk to each other about how long we want to stay, and negotiate to share the good spots. I'd be willing to negotiate with this character as if he were another busker, and let him have the spot after I've been there an hour; I do have some sympathy for panhandlers in wheelchairs. But I'm not willing to be bullied; it's not acceptable to me that he should be able to force a busker off a spot anytime he wants by twiddling his volume knob.

I have thought of an equally "guerilla" tactic that I could use to encourage him to leave, if he tries pulling this on me again... but I'm hoping somebody here will have a better idea, before it comes to that.

Marion