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Why Australian roadhouses blast classical music at night

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Weaponized Beethoven is apparently the ultimate cure for juvenile delinquency. To stop bored kids from aggressively loitering and vandalizing gas stations in the middle of the scorching outback, owners pump Mozart and Bach through the exterior speakers. It turns out that nothing makes a group of rowdy teenagers scatter faster than being subjected to high-volume 18th-century violin sonatas.

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