Paradise by the dashboard lights?

Well everything that gets left in the car long enough will turn into a Best of Queen album - that's the law.

They're coming to take me away ha ha is quite a good one for traffic jams. You start it with really low volume then gradually turn it up and up and make sure you're singing along maniacally. Trust me, you'll have NO issue getting a gap to change lanes when it finally starts moving again!

Another good one is The Toy Dolls' version of Nellie the Elephant - again you have to sing along vigorously!

I know you laughed I heard you laugh... and now you see I'm completely out of my mind...

Hmm.... I still like the idea of playing Bach really, really loudly.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Heard on the news this morning -- the transit authority (bus station) in Tacoma, in an effort to deter gang members from hanging about, is now piping very loud classical music into the terminal.

An interview with a gang member confirmed that they will probably move out of earshot.

Now that's creepy - I have the local news running in the background, and just one minute after I was reading this post, it said the Berlin public transport company anounced to use classical music to drive dealers and homeless away from the underground stations...

They play classical music over the speakers at Dandenong train station for the same reason. However, it's not the music that drives people away, it's the shocking quality of the speakers- it actually hurts to listen for too long! Recently they've added plastic pop to the songlist as well.


I gotta learn to drive.

Ugh, classical music played out of awful speakers in public transportation…I shudder. However, that's nothing compared to what I heard the other day: the ice cream truck playing a really awful mangling of Beethoven's Für Elise, from whatever player ice cream trucks use that can only play about eight different notes, one at a time, each one sounding more synthetic than the last.

*winces*

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Wheehee! I think I need to get that on cd now.

In an effort to get rid of the "mall rats" the local council where my parents live pipe classical music, 24/7, through the mall in the middle of the city. Hate to think what the shopkeepers around think of that.

And even stranger, it actually kind of worked. Now instead of the mall rats there are music students walking around singing along to it (*cough* no of course I haven't done that myself *cough*).

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Beware of the flying giraffes.

Does anyone have the famous ultrasonic whine piped through speakers anywhere near them? Can you hear it? I plan on telsting myself with it one day, because I know I can hear it, by seeing how long I can stand to be around it. Geeky, I know, but I'm curious.

Y'all make me smile.

At knife point, if need be.

Kitten: as you get older you lose the ability to hear high frequencies. Which means that a high-pitched whine can be effective in warding off young'uns.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Yeah, but it aint neccessarily so... I know plenty of people (myself included) who aren't supposed to be able to hear ultrasonic frequencies who can.
Although my grandmother, can't, I'll conceed.

Oh, and I meant 'testing' before, but I can't tpye fro unts.

Your ability to hear high frequencies does decline as you age, but for any particular age the ability to hear a certain frequency varies wildly among individuals. So there might be some early teens who can't even hear the whine, and some adults who can still hear it. I'm in my twenties and can hardly hear it (I've never encountered a store that played it, but I went to an illusion-themed show at a science museum that started with a discussion of that kind of effect).

Of course that doesn't work: I can hear teenagers whining all the time, but they seem immune to it..........................(Sorry Martin)

They should play on the really low end of the frequency range - that makes you skittish, gives you a really "creepy feeling" and in extreme cases, makes your bowels go loose........

Unless you believe what the Mythbusters have to say about it, lol.

Oh god. Imagine if those lads got together with the Top Gear boys...

Well they did the low frequency thing on Brainiacs as well - I don't think it was that successful either - but it does make a good story.

If you really want to make someone's bowels go loose, try Phenolphthalein........