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Date Posted: 18:53:19 02/16/03 Sun
Author: SurveyGuy
Author Host/IP: maxtnt05-269.phlpa.fast.net / 209.92.100.15
Subject: Then again, they just might learn to like that music ...

Bus station plays jazz to drive teenagers away

A bus station in America is planning to play classical music and smooth jazz to discourage loitering teenagers.

Officials at the Trade Street in Charlotte, North Carolina, hope the "grow-up" music will irritate groups of youths who hang around the station.

The station's loudspeakers already emit the calls of hawks and owls to frighten away pigeons that roost in the rafters.

"The idea is to make the atmosphere at the Trade Street station less pleasant for those who aren't there to catch a bus," a spokeswoman told the Charlotte Observer.

"We know if we play a certain genre, people won't want to hang around."

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[> Works for me. -- JL, 23:11:29 02/20/03 Thu (pcp01376707pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net/68.80.69.241)

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[> Now if we can just find music to play so Muslim extremists won't want to hang around ... or politicians .... or some other undesirable group. Think of the research possibilities and potential applications. -- SurveyGuy (with tongue in cheek), 22:06:09 02/21/03 Fri (maxtnt04-182.phlpa.fast.net/209.92.96.182)

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[> [> Islamofascists - how about anything from 'Fiddler on the Roof'? Politicians - need to give this more thought, but perhaps songs that mention the words 'truth' and 'honesty'? -- JL, 13:51:05 02/22/03 Sat (pcp01376707pcs.selrsv01.pa.comcast.net/68.80.69.241)

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[> [> [> "Call me....irresponsible..." -- Spock (channeling Frank Sinatra [I think]), 13:15:31 02/25/03 Tue (user-vc8fm1s.biz.mindspring.com/216.135.216.60)

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