Beethoven blast too much for homeless

The Sun-Herald

  
 A drastic effort to rid a city centre car park of its homeless residents
 - by subjecting them to constant piped classical music - have been 
abandoned after the plan hit a bum note with the public. 

Stoke-on-Trent City Council in the English Midlands said that four days 
of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D Minor had driven the car park's six 
inhabitants from their "home" but had prompted protests that it was being 
unsympathetic to their plight. 

A council spokesman confirmed that it had received several complaints 
about the unusual orchestral manoeuvres in the car park, which are said 
to have taken a heavy toll on the homeless people. 

"We have had some complaints from individuals on the ground that they 
had sympathy for the rough sleepers," the spokesman said.