Teen Rockers Sentenced to Listen to Manilow Music

[Refugee 7]

You're stopped at a red light and the joker next to you is blaring hip hop - the thumping bass giving birth to a migraine. As you wait for the light to change you are thinking of the most cruel and usual punishments you could inflict on the insensitive creep: Boiling him alive, tar and feathering him, and blowing up his car with a nuclear-tipped missile.

There's a judge who's even more sadistic than you, and the punishment he conjured up for noise violators would make the Marquis de Sade smile.

"Barry Manilow's 'I Write the Songs' may begin with the line, 'I've been alive forever,' but for noise ordinance violators, listening to Manilow may feel like forever.

Fort Lupton Municipal Judge Paul Sacco says his novel punishment of forcing noise violators to listen to music they don't like for one hour has cut down on the number of repeat offenders in this northwestern Colorado prairie town.

About four times a year, those guilty of noise ordinance violations are required to sit in a room and listen to music from the likes of Manilow, Barney the Dinosaur, and The Platters' crooning 'Only You'." The Associated Press

Forcing idiots who blast their music at ear-damaging levels to listen to music they don't like is poetic justice. Now they know how we feel when we are forced to endure their lousy choice of music.

But I must come to the defense of Barry Manilow, I know it's not cool to say this, but I love Manilow. It's unfair to put Manilow in the same category as Barney the Dinosaur.

Judge Sacco has the right idea, but he needs to go a step further. If a loser is caught blaring his music so loud that it makes his car vibrate, his auto should be confiscated on the spot. The car should be sold and proceeds should go to buy hearing aids for senior citizens and poor folks.

[KansasPettyFan 1]

That's just funny!

[nurktwin 2,143]

i agree, turn off the stereo tee.....lol!

[LizzieB 0]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!

I know some of you love Barry, but really, to those blaring music, an hour of Barry would be sheer torture!! However, they could just stick with Barney and that would certainly do the trick.

[Echosoftom 3]

^ C'mon Lizzie, don't tell me you're not a "Fanilow"? LOL!

I know one thing, I wish they'd do something because I can't stand it when these fools pull up next to me and my car is literally shaking from the vibrations of their music. It's just ridiculous.

Another thing that gets me is when I look in the back seat and see some poor kid/s sitting back there. That should be illegal.

[brandonwood20 0]

Yeah! No little kids enduring that junk! But you gotta admit.. some music sounds so good loud! Ahem, TPHB, cough....

[PumpkinBumpkin 1]

^lol!

This would be me, "Please no more..NO MORE! I can't take the pain! AHHH!"

[angelic_22 0]

Here you go - another example of a 'moral rights' conundrum

Does the artist (Barry in this case) have a right to object to this kind of usage of his work? In this case it is being used to 'torture' people, or at the very least punish them.

Hopefully he's just laughing this off.....

And then again, what if someone got busted blasting Barry's music in the first place?

Judge: "I sentence you to endure 1000 replays of 'I sing the songs'

Defendant: "Cool!"

Judge: "In that case what music do you really really really dislike?"

Defendant: "Is that like asking me to go get something so you can beat me with it?"

I guess if you have a wide taste in music, you can play your stereo as loud as you want in that town!

[pettyfreak94 1]

Wow.. HAHAHA.

I wouldn't mind that punishment!

[agirl 0]

LOL! I love it. I've heard of them piping in elevator type music in crime areas where there's alot of kids hanging out. I guess if you're a fan of loud, booming music it would be a punishment to have to listen to Barry. BTW, I love Barry.