{"id":987,"date":"2009-03-25T14:05:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=987"},"modified":"2009-03-25T14:05:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:05:33","slug":"pink-light-deters-hoodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"Pink Light Deters Hoodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! With a machine gun!<\/p>\n

Just saw on the local news a story about how they’re using pink fluorescent lights<\/a> in subways to deter gangs of hoodies congregating. Apparently – and according to the spokesman from the local Residents’ Association – the pink light highlights acne and the colour in particular is unattractive to teenage males, so they move on.<\/p>\n

The story also indicates that all the evidence is suggesting that the ploy works and it is causing teenagers to move on.<\/p>\n

It’s a great idea. But what happens now that the baby chimps who this is deterring realise they’ve been had? Why not just keep your mouths shut and bask in the glory of beating the offspring of the local Neanderthals – instead of boasting and gloating over it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! With a machine gun! Just saw on the local news a story about how they’re using pink fluorescent lights in subways to deter gangs of hoodies congregating. Apparently – and according to the spokesman from the local Residents’ Association – the pink light highlights acne and the colour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t