Beethoven is used to deter gangs

Beethoven is used to deter gangs

Why Beethoven

norman lebrecht

January 31, 2023

A branch of McDonalds in Wrexham, Wales, has begun playing Beethoven late at night to make gangs of bored youths feel uncomfortable and stay away (or so they say).

North Wales Live reports that police inspector Luke Hughes said they had received “multiple reports… of one particular group of youths, that at times numbered 20-30, roaming between locations”.

Have they considered that this might generate a new Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess’s dystopian novel of a sadistic gang leader who finds peace only in Beethoven?

 

 

 

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