Word: holzschuh
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...other court, it might have seemed that the bench was having a little joke, but District Judge Karl Holzschuh of Darmstadt, Germany, meant every word he said. The defendant in the case was a 17-year-old boy who had just been convicted of stealing a motorcycle and roaring about the streets. The judge, however, had no intention of clapping him in jail. "You will never know the beauties of nature," said he, "if all you do is drive through it like a madman." The boy's sentence: a year-long membership in the local walking club...
...past two years, Darmstadt has grown accustomed to such unorthodox punishments meted out by Karl Holzschuh. A kindly man of 46 with a fringe of yellow hair about his bald head, he is known throughout the district as the "Chocolate Judge" because he once sentenced a little girl, convicted of stealing chocolate, to donate a candy bar each week to an orphanage. More respectful Germans, however, have another name -"The Solomon of Darmstadt" - for the man chiefly responsible for cutting the local delinquency rate...