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Stevie Wonder and Frank Sinatra beat Brahms and Beethoven at deterring hoons, the city council of Frankston, Australia (southeast of Melbourne) has found.

When we read about this at an Australian news site, we wondered WTF? What’s a hoon, and why are Australians so hot to deter them?

Apparently, hoons are what Australians call hot-rodding kids, young men driving high-performance or otherwise modified cars. Get ready for The Fast and The Furious Four: Attack of the Hoons!

The council started piping classical music into the main street of the city five years ago to scare off hoons and vandals. The experiment with classical music was successful, but they thought that they could do better.

“The idea was if there was classical music blaring out it would make people move on and stop them hanging around,” said Frankston Mayor Vicki McClelland. “We’re interested to see what other styles of music will do,”

Ms McClelland said the council wanted to see if 1960s music would have a similar effect.

“This trial will see what response we get from the “new” music,” she said. “Obviously if things go pear shaped we will change back to classical quick smart.”

If anybody knows WTF it means to go pear shaped and why that would make you change back to classical quick smart, please let us know.