Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime 353
Hugh Pickens writes "The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that transit officials have started to get a handel on subway crime when they started playing Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and Strauss at the Lake Street light-rail station after neighborhood residents complained about the station becoming a haven for rowdy teens and vagrants. 'If it encourages some people to wander away because it's not their favorite type of music, I guess that's OK,' says Acting Transit Police Chief A.J. Olson. The program is modeled after one is Portland that has shown early signs of success, though the numbers are so small as to be statistically insignificant and even supporters of the music haven't reached a consensus on whether such environmental changes actually deter crime or just push it down the block. Not everyone is sold on using 'lovely lovely Ludwig Van' as a deterrent. 'Classical music lovers hate the fact that urban planners use classical music to disperse youth,' says Minneapolis City Council Member Gary Schiff. 'Does it chase crime away?' adds Olson. 'It's hard to measure. But I do think it makes it a more pleasant place to wait for a train.'"
The new Superhero team has been formed (Score:3, Funny)
Won't work (Score:5, Funny)
Just moves the crime so its haydn somewhere else.
Re:Handel..an english word? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Handel..an english word? (Score:5, Funny)
It may initially drive them away. But as they are leaving, they warn that they'll be bach.
Re:Won't work (Score:3, Funny)
You think you're so funny, but loitering in chopin complexes is no joke
It's not very high on my lizst.
Appy-polly-loggies. (Score:5, Funny)
I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.
Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)
all this means is that anyone witnessing a crime there will feel like they're watching a Clockwork Orange.
Re:Handel..an english word? (Score:2, Funny)
If they come Bach, a Tazer and a bit Mo' ZART should do the trick.
Re:Handel..an english word? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Handel..an english word? (Score:5, Funny)
.. or back Orff.
Re:Handel..an english word? (Score:5, Funny)
Do we really have to liszt all the puns?
Re:Hate it. (Score:4, Funny)
And what about law abiding young people?
A tiny minority. Most youths are like the scary ones on TV, always burning stuff and getting into trouble you know :-P
It's punny... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Handel..an english word? (Score:5, Funny)
Would you rather we put them on the chopin block?
Re:Kids have no taste in music? (Score:5, Funny)
Love in a subway is something very different from love in an elevator.
Re:So... (Score:4, Funny)
"Ma'am, can you tell us when your purse was snatched?"
"Yes officer, it was just before the 'Alle Menschen werden Brüder' chorale in the fourth movement."