Unusual if not Cruel Punishment...

A Colorado judge knows just where to hit noise ordinance violators: right in the ears. When a violator of the Ft. Lupton, Colo., noise ordinance is found guilty in Judge Paul Sacco's courtroom, the perp is sentenced to a full hour of Barry Manilow and friends. The violators, who are often convicted of turning up their hip-hop music too loud, serve their sentence in Sacco's courtroom as he blares a loop of Manilow, Dolly Parton, and Karen Carpenter through a boombox for an hour. "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, it's horrible punishment," Sacco told CBS 4 in Denver. The city sees very few repeat violators.

He must not be playing Manilow's When October Goes...

And I think it'd be rougher if he played Duran Duran, America, and Steve Miller Band-- but I'm sure the perpetrators get the point...