Noise Polluters Sentenced To Listen To Barry Manilow 8
A Colorado judge has come up with a way to ensure noise polluters learn their lesson. He forces them to listen to Barry Manilow. Four times a year, Judge Paul Sacco forces noise ordinance violators to sit in a room and listen to one hour of hits from Barry Manilow and Barney, the purple dinosaur. "These people should have to listen to music they don't like," Mr Sacco said.
Re:The judge has no regard for the taxpayers. (Score:3, Insightful)
Taxpayer dollars put to waste, as well as the time of those serving this sentence...[snip]...Community service to help deaf persons or any number of other things that would not be a complete waste
Problem 1: to do just about anything in a specialised field such as working with the deaf requires a certain amount of training, unlike, say, picking up garbage. So you have to take someone with those skills away from whatever else they're doing in order to train the miscreants.
Problem 2: anyone antisocial enough to wind up in court repeatedly for noise pollution is probably not going to participate in such a program willingly; they'd have to be very closely supervised to ensure they're actually doing something useful.
So your specific suggestion would be a complete waste of the offender's time, the trainer's time, the supervisor's time and very probably the deaf person's (people's) time too. That actually makes it a more expensive proposition than making the offender sit and listen to music they don't like for an hour (one baliff, one hour's pay), and it also has the disadvantage of being an abstract punishment which teaches them nothing about why their behaviour is objectionable.
That's not to say I disagree with you in principle, I'm just pointing out that the effectiveness and hidden costs of any punishment need to be taken into consideration, otherwise you can easily end up asking for what you're objecting to.
my lad, this is THE correct application of justice (Score:3, Insightful)
prison sentence ? cash penalty ? public service ? all irrelevant to this crime.
but, subjecting them to the same treatment, is up to the point.
punishing individuals with penalties irrelevant to their crime havent accomplished much to this point. before criticizing something with nonsense, you should get your argument together first, but do it with observation.