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n my never-ending search to come up with something to write about each week, I am always on the lookout for items of interest. You know this stuff isn’t easy to do. Pretty soon, you find yourself saying to yourself…"" Since I’ve been doing this for over 6 years at the rate of 52 a year, that means I’ve cranked out over 300 columns on subjects of one topic or another. I don’t want to repeat myself, as those of you who read this might get the wrong idea and think I was bonkers or something. Now, that doesn’t mean I won’t repeat myself from time to time as the situation warrants. This rule is subject to be broken, especially if I see something to write about that concerns one of my favorite subjects, such as the government or lawyers. Anyway, here I was about to come up dry for this week, when lo and behold an article appeared in the paper that was worth writing about. It seems some judge in some other part of the country got tired of having defendants brought into his court room on these loud noise complaints. Now, these are complaints where someone filed on someone else because their music was too loud or too offensive. You know the kind. You pull up to a stoplight and you can actually feel the car pulling up in the lane next to you. Your car starts to shake and vibrate before anyone is even close to you. These are the folks that don’t know that the sound system has a knob to lower the volume. There must be some kind of study out there that tells how much damage these people are doing to their ears with this stuff turned up as loud as it is. We used to have a neighbor that had one of these 1000-watt sound systems in his truck. You could hear him coming from 4 blocks away. It seems like he only had one record or CD or whatever to play. All bass, all drums…..I wanted to take pity on him and buy him a real record with some other instrument, say like a violin or something, but we moved before I had a chance to do it. Anyway, this judge keeps getting these people in his courtroom for the same thing…excessive noise. So, what does he do? He sentences them to come downtown on the weekends and sit in a room with all of the other defendants and listen to….you go it…stuff like Burt Bacarach, Tom Jones and Perry Como. Here are some of the selections he has them sit through during their period of punishment. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Wayne Newton singing ‘Danke Schon’ and ‘Bill Bailey, won’t you please come home?’ Another classic is Walt Disney’s…"""""""". One of the worlds greatest is, of course, Tony Orlando and Dawn signing…"" The one that is bound to really drive them crazy is Roy Rogers and Dale Evans singing …"" I guarantee you this type of punishment is what we need in this country..creative, innovative, successful. Of course it wouldn’t work for some of us, like me. I happen to like all of those songs. But, to some hip-hop rap listener of about 17 or 18 , I’d imagine they would rather have a root canal than have to sit in that room again. Kind of like I’d feel if I was to get stuck in an elevator for 5 or 6 hours and have to listen to Prince or whatever his name is or Madonna. Makes me want to keep my music on low. This might catch on in other areas as well. Take petty thieves and make them sit and watch old James Cagney and George Raft movies. That’ll make you straighten up and fly right.