As music lovers of all kinds, I thought some of you might appreciate this:

TEEN PUNISHED WITH WAYNE NEWTON MARATHON

TROY, Mich. (AP) -- A rap fan ticketed for violating the city's loud-radio ordinance served two hours of hard time Tuesday listening to the music of Las Vegas crooner Wayne Newton.

Justin Rushford, 18, sat in Troy's courthouse and listened to the entire Wayne Newton Greatest Hits compact disc several times. [snip]

"Yes! I'm done," The Oakland Press reported Rushford saying moments after completing the sentence.

Wearing baggy blue jeans, a white fleece top and a gold hoop in each ear, he told the Detroit Free Press "it makes me think about other people's styles of music. I probably wouldn't appreciate it if some old man drove past me blasting this music."

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Troy District Judge Michael Martone, waived the jail time and fines for violating the noise ordinance.

Martone, known for handing down novel sentences, such as having drunken drivers watch autopsies, said he "meant no disrespect" for the perennial crooner.
------ I swear!! I found it here if you don't believe me. Now what I want to know is, WHY AREN'T THERE MORE JUDGES LIKE THIS? "Novel" sentences, indeed.

[sarcasm on]
I mean really, whoever heard of a punishment actually fitting the crime?? Outrageous!!
[sarcasm off]

Things like this should be the RULE, not the exception, no?

*elektra*