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Rite Aids are blasting Barry Manilow tunes to deter vagrants
NY Post ^
| June 28, 2018
| Tamar Lapin
Posted on 06/28/2018 6:15:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode
He writes the songs that make people run.
Some Rite Aid stores in California have taken to blasting Barry Manilow tunes as part of a plan to make loiterers scramble.
Employees told the Wall Street Journal that the drugstore chain has been testing the tactic of playing songs by the 75-year-old crooner outside their stores over and over, loudly to deter panhandlers and vagrants.
But the plan has also left neighbors mystified.
I thought some older man had died and left a Barrys Most Depressing Hits CD on repeat, said Lisa Masters, a professional drummer in Long Beach who couldnt open her windows without hearing Mandy blaring.
I felt trapped in an episode of The Twilight Zone, she said.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: barrymanilow; california; manilow; riteaid
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LOL
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:15:50 PM PDT
by
EdnaMode
To: EdnaMode
I thought some older man had died and left a Barrys Most Depressing Hits CD on repeat, Now that's funny.
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:17:01 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: EdnaMode
Weekend In New England can make me want to reach for my MAC 10.
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:17:22 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: EdnaMode
I write the songs that make the homeless flee...
To: dirtboy; EdnaMode
there is only one person more depressing than Manilow.
Dan Fogelberg.
You can actually feel yourself spiraling down a depression tube with his music.
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:19:10 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
To: EdnaMode
Somehow, on first glance, I thought it said
Rite Aids are blasting Barry Manilow tunes to deter vagrants vegans
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:19:41 PM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
To: irishjuggler
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:19:59 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Yes, I get it - racism is bad and mutual respect and inclusion is good. But value Truth too.)
To: EdnaMode
Some years back the 7-11s in our area used to play Mozart and Chopin on their outside speakers. It did keep loitering around the pay telephone down.
To: EdnaMode
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:20:26 PM PDT
by
Ge0ffrey
To: EdnaMode
Amatuers. I play Hillary speeches. Homeless avoid my store within a ten block radius
To: irishjuggler
Maybe Copa Cabana could make them never come back .
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:22:37 PM PDT
by
ncalburt
(Gop DC Globalists out themselves ever time)
To: EdnaMode
“Panhandler”?
“Vagrants”?
What in the world? How cruel and heartless. They are the “housing challenged” or the “temporarily unhoused.”
Next thing you know they’ll be calling them “bums.”
To: EdnaMode
8th amendment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted
To: EdnaMode
I never forgave him for “Could This Be Magic.” He took a 12 bar Chopin prelude and turned it into 9 minutes of sheer agony.
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:24:04 PM PDT
by
Publius
To: EdnaMode
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:24:13 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: EdnaMode
Vagrants?
Hell—I won’t go in the place if they’re playing Barely Manenough.
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:25:02 PM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Amatuers. I play Hillary speeches. Homeless avoid my store within a ten block radius Can you imagine a tag-team situation, with Hillary and Eleanor Clift both giving vent to their most passionate ravings. When one started to lose volume, the other would hit the gas.
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:25:25 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: EdnaMode
To: EdnaMode
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posted on
06/28/2018 6:26:12 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: Bull Snipe
Some years back the 7-11s in our area used to play Mozart and Chopin on their outside speakers.
In England local authorities have experimented with a particular sort of lightbulb in bus shelters that causes teens' blemishes to glow a gaudy purple color.
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