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I read this in the Well Tempered Blog.
“Andrew Vactor was arrested for playing rap music “too loudly” on his car stereo. Vactor faced a $150 fine, presumably for ‘disrupting the peace’, but a judge offered to reduce it to $35 if the defendant spent 20 hours listening to classical music by the likes of Beethoven, Bach and Chopin.”
For some reason or other it pushed all of my buttons at once.
(And now I am sure that I am going to push some other peoples buttons…but that is not the intention).
I love music (obviously), Classical music included of course if not preferred, but I have, will and do listen to all sorts of music - Hip Hop included. I can’t find any way possible to compare the two, and say one is preferable to the other, unless it is in a completely subjective way - A person can prefer classical music to hip hop, which that same person can like a bit or not at all.
I don’t know what the judge was thinking to himself,”condemning” somebody to 20 hours of classical music - like in all genres there is good and bad here to, plus Mr Vactor was not arrested for listening to Rap but for playing it to loudly… Don’t you think that if he was driving though the streets blasting Bach or Beethoven it would be just as disturbing to the peace - the fitting punishment to be exchanged for the fine would be 20 hours in complete and utter silence.
Am I right?
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I think that’s hilarious!!
Why not inflict an overdose of cultural masterpieces upon an ignoramous? Personally I find it highly entertaining that a judge would do that. Was it 20 hours in large allotments of time? I would do two 10 hour sittings. Really drill it into him!!
My assumption is that the judge was looking to please the residents. I think it would make more of an impact than a fine. $150 can get forgotten and poo-poo’d. Having the dread of another 20 hours of culture would be more of a deterrant.
The concept might seem caustic to the senses of a classical apprecient, because the thought of someone feeling punished by music you love will totally be offensive. In essence you’re being told that your music tortures people. Not a comfortable feeling, and certainly something worth debating about.
To each his own; one man’s blessing is another man’s malediction.
Another quick note, if he was playing music in his car soo loud as to get a charge worth $150, chances are it was offensive rap, the stereotypical stuff that gets the hackles up on the backs and necks of quiet residents. The ignoramous, I’ll continue to think of him that way, has a serious lack of respect for his fellow man, and if he’s as rebellious as I’m sure he was, then he probably made a fuss when the cops came, and that’s why the judge decided to sentence him to what would have been the worst torture a young rebellious boy would have to endure.
He probably just sucked it up and payed the $150 fine. LMAO!!!!
LoL - Quite funny - I hadn’t thought of it like that, though I still think that the silence would bug him more…