Classical Music as Punishment

As punishment for violating the city’s noise ordinance by playing loud rap music in his car, an Urbana man was sentenced to listen to 20 hours of symphonic music or pay a $130 fine. The symphonic selections included Beethoven, Chopin, Bach, DeBussy and other composers. He lasted 15 minutes and chose to instead pay the fine. I think I would have sentenced him to listen to an entire atonal opera. Twisted

Saturday, October 11th, 2008 09:52 pm GMT -5