There’s a mall in New Zealand that’s looking to drive off troublesome teens … by playing Barry Manilow music.
A group of several dozen young people regularly spread rubbish, spray graffiti, get intoxicated, use drugs, swear and intimidate patrons at the outdoor mall, he said.
The city council, police and local property owners covering 410 businesses agree that “nice, easy listening” music like Manilow’s “Can’t Smile Without You,” “Mandy” and other hits might change the behavior of loitering teens
If it works, I have another mission for Manilow:
Maybe blasting Manilow music at the White House would drive out all the undesirables.
Something tells me they enjoy Barry Manilow music.
O bama
You came and you gave without taking
but I pushed you away O bama
O bama
You came and you took without asking
would you just go away O bama
Fixed that for you Scooter.
Maybe we need to take turns standing outside the White House, and blasting it with different types of music until we find one that works.
Wouldn’t jail change some of that behavior? How about a nice humane cattle prod? Or maybe, just maybe, they could hire some rent-a-cops to run the little bastards off the property. It seems to me by not discuraging the bad behavior (loitering) with positive reinforcement of the (most likely) posted law, unstead of cowtoeing to the little shits, they are pissing up a rope with this psychobabble pc correctness.
Marvin – we should give Obama the Noriega treatment?
Works for me.
#1 is correct; most fanilows will drink whatever koolaid their idol does.
Manilow is a long-time moonbat (remember his hissyfit 2 yrs ago over sharing a stage with Hasselbeck) and Dem contributor, and NZ is not the first time his music has been used as punishment. It worked in Australia with kids loitering after hours in parking lots, and in our own Colorado for noise violators. Thirty years later, his name is still a punchline. Gotta love it.
I bet some Nuge would flush the Liberals outta DC though, or even Lee Greenwood.
Nunya, Wango Tango, baby. The Nuge would drive the whip-crackers urging Fedzilla on right up the wall and out of the nice house on Pennsylvania Avenue.
Manilow would actually cause me to act in an anti social fashion.
I think playing Barry Manilow in the malls would not only drive off unruly teenagers, but most shoppers! lol
I think if we blasted at the White House they’d flee in terror kind of like the legion of demons that possessed the two Gerasenian men. Misty Edwards is the worship leader for the Kansas City International House of Prayer.
Kathleen Parker sings to Barack Obama…
I remember all my life
Rainin’ down as cold as ice
Shadows of a man
A face through a window
Cryin’ in the night
The night goes into
Mornin’, just another day
Happy people pass my way
Lookin’ in their eyes
I see a memory
I never realized
How happy you made me, oh Barry
Well, you came and you gave without takin’
But I sent you away, oh Barry
well, you kissed me and stopped me from shakin’
and I need you today. Oh, Barry!
I’m standing on the edge of time
I’ve walked away when love was mine
Caught up in a world of uphill climbin’
The tears are in my mind
And nothin’ is rhyming, oh Barry
Well, you came and you gave without takin’
But I sent you away, oh Barry
well, you kissed me and stopped me from shakin’
And I need you today, oh Barry
Yesterday’s a dream
I face the mornin’
Cryin’ on a breeze
The pain is callin’, oh Barry
Well, you came and you gave without takin’
But I sent you away, oh Barry
Well, you kissed me and stopped me from shakin’
And I need you today, oh Barry
You came and you gave without takin’
But I sent you away, oh Barry
You kissed me and stopped me from shakin’
And I need you!
In Olympia, WA they played classical music to drive the teens away from the park in front of the bus transit.
It worked in the first two days and has been playing ever since with perfect results.
If they did that at Club Gittmo, the liberals would claim it was torture and call it “cruel and unusual” punishment.
Arresting the little punks and letting them spend a month or two in the slammer never occured to them. I forgot, thats only used to supress conservative and pro-life free speech.
What were the tunes they blasted at Waco?
[“Light My Fire” by the Doors? Actually, it was Tibetan chants, Christmas music, and “annoying music,” according to a DOJ report. Anyone with specifics?- B]
And they accuse the US of using torture…
I was troubled when the government was using music to break down the terrorists who threaten our way of life. But, when it comes to rowdy teens stirring up trouble at the local mall, I say give no quarter, they must be defeated!
And, get off my lawn.
awesome idea, but be sure not to play sesame street or barney, because according to the left, thats torture worthy of jail time.