In an attempt to make the punishment fit the crime, Judge Paul Sacco, of Fort Lupton, Colorado, has come up with a terrible punishment: he puts violators of the City's noise ordinance law into a small room and forces them to listen to Barry Manilow. Or Dolly Parton. Or Karen Carpenter.

When you have a person playing rap at extreme volumes all over the city, and they have to sit down and listen for an hour to Barry Manilow, its horrible punishment, says Judge Sacco.

Quite.

Between you and me, I'm quite partial to Karen Carpenter, but even I would balk at being forced to listen to her at full volume for an hour. It doesn't take much imagination to understand what effect an hour of this same music would have on somebody who is into gangsta rap. During the punishment offenders are banned from eating, drinking, chewing, reading, or sleeping. So no escape there then.

Apparently, after having suffered an hour of Barry Manilow, there are few repeat offenders.

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