Posted on 11/21/2013 3:34:57 AM PST by markomalley
A McDonald's outlet in Australia has begun playing classical musical and opera late at night to deter young people from loitering around the restaurant.
Fed up with their outlet's nocturnal transformation into an unofficial youth club, the store adopted the tactic a few weeks ago and says it has significantly reduced the number of loiterers, particularly around the car park.
The strategy has reportedly been tried before by a local council at a car park in Australia, though previous efforts involved blaring songs by Barry Manilow.
Matthew Watson, the operations manager at the Mt Annan McDonald's on the outskirts of Sydney, said the music had been a successful deterrent.
"We've noticed a reduction in the number of young people hanging around, but we'll have to reassess it properly in a couple of weeks," the store's operations manager,
Matthew Watson, told the Macarthur Chronicle newspaper. "We play a range of classical and opera music and so far it seems to be working."
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If that doesn’t work maybe 24/7 Barney. Just sayin’.
Opera would work for me, but if it was classical I might be tempted to stay a while.
Of course if it was Hip Hop, I wouldn’t stop if I was starving.
Barely Manenough wouldn't drive me away - he would drive me to violence. And I'm not a teenager (like you didn't know that). :-)
Depends on what opera. My favorite aria is Un bel di from Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccuni. I also like Carmen
Just like the Martians in “Mars Attacks.” The perfidious little green bastards couldn’t stand the sound of Slim Whitman’s wholesome crooning.
The older customers don’t mind. They just turn off their hearing aids and enjoy the solitude without rowdy teens.
That is a fantastic idea.
My grandfather had a 78 rpm record entitled How to Drive Away Unwanted Guests. It consisted of various irritating sounds - squealing train wheels, sirens, etc.
I loved it as a young boy!
“The perfidious little green bastards couldn’t stand the sound of Slim Whitman’s wholesome crooning.”
I was thinking the same identical thing, even humming Cattle Call in my head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjGRlKPgppw
This would surely drive the little A-holes out, but keep me their for dessert.
In Washington D.C. they could play Bluegrass and get rid of loiterers.
If that doesn`t work, try the greatest hits of Cher. Endless repeat. Studies show it works better than waterboarding.
What is it about classical music that repels da youts’? They don’t just not like it, it’s like kryptonite to them.
If that didn’t work, I would play the greatest hits of Slim Whitman - backwards like El Rushbo looking for satanic messages.
I was going to suggest playing Yoko Ono music all day long, but that would drive every customer away.
Would maybe listen to rap music. Yodeling should be forever banned.
Hmmm, strange that the food isnt enough to drive them off...
Classical music IS “classical” because there is an objective, external to human definition, standard for “good music”.
When light shines in the darkness, darkness flees.
I’m more and more convinced that the urban culture is simply an anti-culture, opposed to all standards of civilization that are based on God’s law.
Well put, sir. So much of today’s Common Culture is a war against eternal truths and the Almighty Who gave them.
“Doonesbury” once attempted to lampoon the use of classical music as loiterer repellent, where an Afro dude comes bopping into a record shop & asks, “Yo man, that be da “Trout Quintet” you blastin’ outside? Da one in A Major, D. 667? Ol’ Franz Schubert, man, he my DAWG!!”
Garry Trudeau, what else is expected?
Sadly I’d have to say it is a culture. While anti-authority, its pro civilization and dependent on mass consumerism like most of America. Its civil society is weak but that is a direct result of the welfare state. You want to see an anti-culture look to the middle east where they are actively trying to destroy civilization.
Agree 100% all around!
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