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Have you ever walked into a store, and the music playing was so horrible that you left immediately? Well New Zealand officials believe that music is anything preformed by Barry Manilow.
A group of troublesome teenagers have been vandalizing the Christchurch mall, and being hooligans in public (i.e., smoking, drinking and swearing). To put a stop to this, the city has decided that they will loudly play Barry Manilow’s greatest hits over the mall’s AP system. The teenagers will be forced to listen to it, magically rewiring their psyche, thus causing them to no longer be a bunch of rowdy punks…. And if that doesn’t work, at the very least it will annoy them into finding a new, less 80’s-love-ballad-infested hang out
As flawless as this plan may sound, one member of the prepubescent army stated that this isn’t as much as a buzz kill as everyone is making it out to sound. Because, believe it or not, these young whipper snappers have some crazy new technology, ipods and Walkmans and stereos oh my!
When I heard about this, all I could picture was in Mars Attacks! when the aliens heads explode from hearing country western. Unfortunately for Christchurch, Manilow has not quite reached the level of causing your brain to spontaneously blow up. Better luck trying Enya next time.

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