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Community leaders in Christchurch, New Zealand hope that the songs of Barry Manilow will deter juvenile delinquents from congregating at the town's outdoor mall, according to an AP report at Yahoo! News.While recent auditory repulsion techniques have met disapproval from certain quarters, Christchurch's Central City Business Association manager Paul Lonsdale hopes that piping Manilow tunes through the mall's P.A. will be less controversial. "The intention is to change the environment in a positive way .. so nobody feels threatened or intimidated," he explained to the AP. Manilow, pictured above (no, that's not Rod Stewart's older sister), has long been known for his unobtrusive songs and mellow croons.
Say what he will, Lonsdale has to know that "Mandy" is to teenagers what kryptonite is to Superman. While we're pretty sure that this plan -- if implemented -- would deter teenagers, we're also afraid of the prospect of an entire town being populated by clones of this dude. [From: AP Via: Neatorama]
Teen Texting Craziness
Syracuse University professor Laurence Thomas made news last year for walking out of the classroom whenever his students disobeyed his "no texting in class" rule. Wouldn't the kind of student who would text in class be happy to have class canceled?
In January, 13-year-old Californian Reina Hardesty sent 14,528 text messages from her cell phone. Fortunately for her daddy, he had her on an unlimited text plan.
Two high school cheerleaders in Seattle were suspended from school in December when school officials found out that they had taken nude pictures of themselves on their cell phones and, mistakenly or not, wound up with them circulating through the football locker room. The girls' parents have filed suit against the school. You'd think they would just let the embarassment die quietly.
In December, while on a class trip (according to an Internet rumor anyway), the above message appeared on 18-year-old Elizabeth Frisinger's phone after mistakenly texting her dad, back home in Cleveland, that she'd just lost her virginity. Whoops!
Outdoing Reina Hardesty, 15-year-old Ohioan Paige Hornev averages 15,000 text messages a month. That comes out to the impressive, or pitiful, average of 500 text messages a day.
Thinking about Emily Jenning's texting abilities just makes our thumbs hurt. The Vancouver, British Columbia teen pumped out an absurd 41,600 text messages in the course of a single month -- we did some quick calculations and that works out to about one text every minute.
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Subscribe to commentsTexas River RatMar 7th 2009 3:50PM
I believe this was done (with classical music) a number of years ago in either NYC or Chicago. It was highly successful and the question seemed to be whether the thugs were mellowed out by the music or repulsed by it. Didn't matter ... they quit hanging there.
Texas River RatMar 7th 2009 3:52PM
They have contests for that?????
CavemanMar 8th 2009 7:35PM
Please no more Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, T-Pain and the rest of that shit they play @ the mall.
Wyld Stallions!!