Cool and unusual punishment

Cross-posted to both of my blogs:

We all know how torture goes in children’s cartoons: you get tickled with a feather rather than poked with a hot iron.  We can’t show our little tykes real torture methods - no matter how much they have it coming - so instead we give them something more akin to Mel Brooks singing about the Inquisition than the Inquisition itself.  But you’ve always thought “it doesn’t happen in real life,” right?

Think again.  Via Michelle Malkin, I learn that Fort Lupton Municipal Judge Paul Sacco deals with noise ordinance violators by making them listen to sounds they don’t like.  That’s right, get too loud on Mr. Sacco’s turf and he’ll sentence you to listen to Barry Manilow.  For real.  Apparently he doesn’t get many repeat offenders, but oh dear God:  So.  Many.  8th Amendment.  Jokes.

We have got to get this judge into the Supreme Court.  I will donate money to this cause.  And I will read Vogon poetry to anyone who opposes me.