Barry Manilow to drive out hooligans

[Leesifer]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/5047610.stm

[Dingfod]

Her name was Lola...

[Leesifer]

[Zehava]

In 1999, the Warrawong Westfield shopping mall in Wollongong played Bing Crosby hits over and over again to drive away loitering teenagers.

That'd scare the fuck you of me too

[Dingfod]

Oh Mandy...

[Legs]

[Leesifer]

Originally Posted by Dingfod

Oh Mandy...

[Godwhacker]

Just wait until they "go nuclear" and break out the Osmonds....

[inland wave]

Originally Posted by Godwhacker

Just wait until they "go nuclear" and break out the Osmonds....

[Sauron]

Someplace (I think) Los Angeles was playing country music on streetcorners in known drug dealer neighborhoods. Apparently the dealers - rap and hip-hop fans - were known to spontaneously combust at the sound of Conway Twitty.

[lisarea]

INACCURATE THREAD TITLE! INACCURATE THREAD TITLE!

The title seems to imply Barry Manilow was actually going to go out on streetcorners and chase the superfluous young people off yelling, "You hooligans! Scofflaws! You inconsiderate ne'er do wells! Shoo! Stop bothering the nice people!"

But that's not happening, and I am, frankly, crestfallen.

CRESTFALLEN, YOU HEAR ME! CRESTFALLEN!!!

[Adam]

"Daggy music is one way to make the hoons leave an area, because they can't stand the music," he told Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

I can't tell you how often I've found myself saying that exact thing.