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 Barry’s Most Depressing Hits CD on repeat,” said Lisa Masters, a professional drummer in Long Beach who couldn’t open her windows without hearing “Mandy” blaring.
“I felt trapped in an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone,’” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Now, it’s time for 99 Luftballoons!
The German version, to be followed by “The Unicorn by The Irish Rovers, to be followed by The National Anthem done on Harmonica, Spoons and Coconut shells.
Do customers also avoid it? Because I certainly would. :P
LOL. The poor employees!
Lol, well yes, but his song Wisteria is totally beautiful, but er, well, yep, depressing.
Maybe they’re playing Baby it’s cold outside? Or A little traveling music please?
Isn’t there something in the Geneva Convention about this sort of thing?
Torture. No fair.
Two words Duncan Sheik. He makes Dan Fogelberg and Barry Manilow sound like they’re singing hey Mickey by Toni Basil
Those would all work!
Haha ...
My sky scraper office is right across the street from a 7-11 [very LA that] ..
The homeless would congregate. Now they blast classical music and no one hangs around.
‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ on endless repeat
Awesome!
I’d play Thriller by Michael Jackson....
Next thing you know they’ll be calling them “bums.”
Then they could play THIS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HBQFjoqDYE
(btw as a kid I thought he was saying ‘trailors for sailor rent’ Thought sailors liked trailors. ?
Looks Like We Made It!
I just HAD to click on it.
They must play that stuff in Hell!
That is deranged.
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