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Driver charged over expletives in car stereo rap music

Nov 23, 2007, 2:41 GMT

Wellington - New Zealand police charged a man with offensive behaviour because he was playing rap music heavy with expletives on his car stereo, a newspaper reported Friday. Inspector Bruce Horne said he heard it in his office nearly a block away from the car parked in the visitor information centre of the North Island town of Rotorua, the Daily Post reported. 'People going to our visitor centre don't want to hear music where every second word is the F word,' Horne told the paper. 'It's not what we need in a tourist town.' And as for it being music, he said, 'It's questionable about the musical value of something when it's just a string of expletives.' The 39-year-old man signed a guilty plea at the police station, which meant he did not have to appear in court. A justice of the peace will now decide the penalty, which could be a fine of 1,000 New Zealand dollars (about 750 US dollars). © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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