A college student in Ohio who was charged with playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo had some trouble listening to classical music.

Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for sound violation, but a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to classical music by the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.

Vactor, 24, lasted 15 minutes, a probation officer said.

It wasn’t the music, Vactor said, he just needed to be at practice with the rest of the Urbana University basketball team.

“I didn’t have the time to deal with that,” he said. “I just decided to pay the fine.”

Champaign County Municipal Court Judge Susan Fornof-Lippencott says the idea was to force Vactor to listen to something he might not prefer, just as other people had no choice but to listen to his loud rap music.

“I think a lot of people don’t like to be forced to listen to music,” she said.

She’s also taped TV shows for defendants in other cases to watch on topics such as financial responsibility. As she sees it, they get the chance to have their fine reduced “and at the same time broaden their horizons.”

— In Philadelphia, an attorney is finding out that typos can be expensive.

A judge says lawyer Brian Puricelli, of Newtown, is entitled to $26,000 in fees for his work on a successful civil rights lawsuit, not the more than $180,000 he wanted.

U.S. District Judge William Ditter, in an opinion filed last week, noted that the attorney’s paperwork was riddled with typos and errors.

Puricelli admits he relies too heavily on spell-check software and doesn’t proofread enough. But he also says the judge should have known he had accidentally filed an unedited copy, and that amended paperwork filed three days later was the finished product.

Ditter, however, says that filing had errors too.

This is the second time Puricelli had his fees slashed for sloppiness. The same thing happened with a different judge in 2004.