Street Angel
06-08-2006, 12:44 PM
I got a good laugh out of this story so I thought I'd share...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/06/wbazza06.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/06/ixnews.html
Trouble with gangs? Put on Manilow
By Nick Squires in Sydney
(Filed: 06/06/2006)
Australians sick of the late-night music and revving engines of gangs of boy racers have unveiled a secret weapon - Barry Manilow.
Councillors in Rockdale, a suburb of Sydney, hope that the crooners' ballads will drive away the dozens of young "hoons", as boy racers are known, who are making residents' lives a misery.
Loudspeakers will belt out hits such as Mandy, I Write the Songs and Copacabana over the car park where the youths gather nightly to drink, smoke and compare souped-up cars.
Councillors believe Manilow's music is so deeply unfashionable - "daggy" in Australian slang - that teenagers will flee the area.
"Daggy music is one way to make the hoons leave because they can't stand it," Councillor Bill Saravinovski told a local newspaper.
The idea follows an experiment a few years ago in Hobart, Tasmania, where Bing Crosby music was successfully used to drive teenage loiterers out of a shopping centre.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/06/wbazza06.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/06/06/ixnews.html
Trouble with gangs? Put on Manilow
By Nick Squires in Sydney
(Filed: 06/06/2006)
Australians sick of the late-night music and revving engines of gangs of boy racers have unveiled a secret weapon - Barry Manilow.
Councillors in Rockdale, a suburb of Sydney, hope that the crooners' ballads will drive away the dozens of young "hoons", as boy racers are known, who are making residents' lives a misery.
Loudspeakers will belt out hits such as Mandy, I Write the Songs and Copacabana over the car park where the youths gather nightly to drink, smoke and compare souped-up cars.
Councillors believe Manilow's music is so deeply unfashionable - "daggy" in Australian slang - that teenagers will flee the area.
"Daggy music is one way to make the hoons leave because they can't stand it," Councillor Bill Saravinovski told a local newspaper.
The idea follows an experiment a few years ago in Hobart, Tasmania, where Bing Crosby music was successfully used to drive teenage loiterers out of a shopping centre.