Hello Everyone,
Evelyn here,
I haven't quite made the move yet. However, I working on it. In the meantime here is an interesting, if not amusing, development in the fight against boom car drivers.
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10/9/08
Judge Sentences Rap Music Fan to Bach, Beethoven
URBANA, Ohio (AP) -- A defendant had a hard time facing the music. Andrew Vactor
was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in
July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours
listening to classical music by the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.
Vactor, 24, lasted only about 15 minutes, a probation officer said.
It wasn't the music, Vactor said, he just needed to be at practice with the rest
of the Urbana University basketball team.
''I didn't have the time to deal with that,'' he said. ''I just decided to pay
the fine.''
Champaign County Municipal Court Judge Susan Fornof-Lippencott says the idea was
to force Vactor to listen to something he might not prefer, just as other people
had no choice but to listen to his loud rap music.
''I think a lot of people don't like to be forced to listen to music,'' she
said.
She's also taped TV shows for defendants in other cases to watch on topics such
as financial responsibility. As she sees it, they get the chance to have their
fine reduced ''and at the same time broaden their horizons.''
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The poor guy. Just think of what his mental and emotional state would have been if the judge has insisted that he listened the those classics and paid his fine as well. The inhumanity!
Evelyn out.
