More creative sentencing .
Complete with a few oddities.. Larry Storch (F-Troop..not the same one) Ironside..and of course the girlfriend of 27 minutes
Column: Local man appeals tea pot' sentence
July 10, 2012 12:00 AM
http://www.kinston.com/news/pot-83428-sentence-tea.html
Jon Dawson
Columnist
If youve ever had to sit in traffic listening to a nearby vehicle blast music at a volume capable of diverting the flight pattern of migrating fowl, youre not alone. Chances are the La Grange man who was recently issued a bizarre penalty for noise pollution was the source of your involuntary ear wax removal. Larry Storch, 89, of 667 Calamity Lane, La Grange, was recently cited for misdemeanor noise pollution; it was his 17th citation since 2005.
Theyve been giving me noise tickets for years, Storch said. I guess they thought their tickets would deter me, but every time I paid off a ticket Id stop by the speaker place on the way home and add a little more boom to my zoom. When Storch was brought before Lenoir County District Judge Robert T. Ironside for his latest infraction, the judge alluded to what he described as wanton disregard for the public.
Youve come before this court many times over the years Mr. Storch, Judge Ironside said. In the past Ive fined you, sentenced you to community service, and at one point even forced you to watch the fourth hour of the Today Show. Since none of those punishments have done anything to curb your jackassory behavior, Ive decided to get medieval on where your butt if you had one would be.
Storch - who drives a 1976 Aston Martin Lagonda has been sentenced to blare the Teapot song (Im A Little Teapot) out of his stereo for 45 days. A bailiff gave Storch a homemade CD featuring 37 different versions of the beloved childrens poem as he left the Lenoir County courthouse on Friday. I think its kinda sweet, really, said Storchs girlfriend of 27 minutes, Paulette Burroughs of La Grange. Ive dated many a rapper in my day, and they all cite Im A Little Teapot as the joint that got them started in hip hop. 50 Cent was weaving Tea Pot into his rhymes when he was still 16 Cent.
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