[3739] in Humor
Fwd: Boston Train Station's Music Keeps Loiterers at Bay,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mkhusid@MIT.EDU)
Tue Sep 17 17:36:38 2002
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 17:33:42 -0400
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Should this be banned as "cruel and unusual" :) ?
> > Boston Train Station's Music Keeps Loiterers at Bay, Globe Says
> 2002-09-16 12:52 (New York)
>
>
> Boston, Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Boston transit officials are
> using show tunes and march music to keep young people from
> loitering in a terminal, the Boston Globe reported.
> The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority began playing light-
> classical selections over the public address system at the Forest
> Hills station to discourage kids from hanging out after school,
> the paper said, citing MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo.
> ``An American in Paris'' and the Boston Pops' Fourth of July
> repertoire have successfully blunted the spike in fighting and
> youth crime that normally occurs at the station early in the
> school year, the paper said, citing Pesaturo.
> ``We tried arresting the kids last year. That didn't work at
> all. We just wanted to try something different,'' the Globe cited
> William Fleming, acting chief of the MBTA police, as saying.
>
> (Globe 9-15 City Weekly)
>
