Rite Aids are blasting Barry Manilow tunes to deter vagrants

NY Post ^ | June 28, 2018 | Tamar Lapin

[EdnaMode]

He writes the songs that make people run.

Some Rite Aid stores in California have taken to blasting Barry Manilow tunes as part of a plan to make loiterers scramble.

Employees told the Wall Street Journal that the drugstore chain has been testing the tactic of playing songs by the 75-year-old crooner outside their stores — over and over, loudly — to deter panhandlers and vagrants.

But the plan has also left neighbors mystified.

“I thought some older man had died and left a Barry’s Most Depressing Hits CD on repeat,” said Lisa Masters, a professional drummer in Long Beach who couldn’t open her windows without hearing “Mandy” blaring.

“I felt trapped in an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone,’” she said.

[EdnaMode]

LOL

[dirtboy]

“I thought some older man had died and left a Barry’s Most Depressing Hits CD on repeat,”

Now that's funny.

[Steely Tom]

Weekend In New England can make me want to reach for my MAC 10.

[irishjuggler]

I write the songs that make the homeless flee...

[Chickensoup]

there is only one person more depressing than Manilow.

Dan Fogelberg.

You can actually feel yourself spiraling down a depression tube with his music.

[Sir Napsalot]

Somehow, on first glance, I thought it said

Rite Aids are blasting Barry Manilow tunes to deter vagrants vegans

[ClearCase_guy]

Well played.

[Bull Snipe]

Some years back the 7-11s in our area used to play Mozart and Chopin on their outside speakers. It did keep loitering around the pay telephone down.

[Ge0ffrey]

I would have gone with Yoko Ono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZ9weP5i68

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Amatuers. I play Hillary speeches. Homeless avoid my store within a ten block radius

[ncalburt]

Maybe Copa Cabana could make them never come back .

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Panhandler”?
“Vagrants”?

What in the world? How cruel and heartless. They are the “housing challenged” or the “temporarily unhoused.”

Next thing you know they’ll be calling them “bums.”

[FewsOrange]

8th amendment

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted

[Publius]

I never forgave him for “Could This Be Magic.” He took a 12 bar Chopin prelude and turned it into 9 minutes of sheer agony.

[dfwgator]

That would do it.

[Arm_Bears]

Vagrants?

Hell—I won’t go in the place if they’re playing Barely Manenough.

[Steely Tom]

Amatuers. I play Hillary speeches. Homeless avoid my store within a ten block radius

Can you imagine a tag-team situation, with Hillary and Eleanor Clift both giving vent to their most passionate ravings. When one started to lose volume, the other would hit the gas.

[Fiji Hill]

To quickly get rid of vagrants, they ought to play this one--or this one--or even this one.

[Trillian]

Hahaha

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Some years back the 7-11s in our area used to play Mozart and Chopin on their outside speakers.
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