Huh?

From Kevin Drum:

MOZART FOR TEENAGERS....This is fascinating:

Co-op, a chain of grocery stores, is experimenting with playing classical music outside its shops, to stop youths from hanging around and intimidating customers. It seems to work well. Staff have a remote control and “can turn the music on if there's a situation developing and they need to disperse people”, says Steve Broughton of Co-op.

The most extensive use of aural policing so far, though, has been in underground stations. Six stops on the Tyneside Metro currently pump out Haydn and Mozart to deter vandals and loiterers, and the scheme has been so successful that it has spawned imitators. After a pilot at Elm Park station on the London Underground, classical music now fills 30 other stations on the network. The most effective deterrents, according to a spokesman for Transport for London, are anything sung by Pavarotti or written by Mozart.

I can think of loads of terrific spinoffs on this idea. Unfortunately, I'll bet the effect wears off over time. Too bad.

nope, not what i was expecting to read.....

Me too, I though our own lovely Aural Fixation was puttin' the smack down on an unruly Obner.

Or worse yet, someone puttin' the smackdown on ME!!

Phewwww...I can breathe easier now. *fanning self*

Just don't cause any trouble at the supermarket when next you're in the UK. I doubt Darrin and Sketch would have the shrapnel to bail you out. So, you'd end up dirty and stinking in a Bowery jail.

Oh, that would be fun.

The UK Safeways are rather nice to shop in. Hmmm....

yeah, i went to the co-op in yellowknife and heard classical music. i was like, wtf? but a good wtf.

I'd rather hear classical music in grocery stores than the pap they play in them now.

They play Paper Airplane Pilots in grocery stores?!?

It seems a little sad that Classical Music is such a huge turn off to so many people... I mean, it's not like I have a huge collection of it myself or anything, but people loiter for Michael Bolton, but take off when Mozart is playing?

The small-ish grocery store I go to plays classical music - it's one of the reasons I go there. That & the freshly baked bread. mmmmmmm

Yeah, I was going to say...if there was more classical music being played everywhere the world would be a better place. Or strangely reminiscent of a concentration camp.

Beethoven doesn't work.

Think Clockwork Orange.