A neighbor’s noisy toilet is a human rights violation, Italy’s top court rules
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Italy’s top court has added a new human rights violation to a list commonly thought to include enslavement, torture and forced starvation: the sound of a toilet flushing at night. That country’s supreme court ... concluded a 19-year legal battle that began when a couple living in a flat near La Spezia complained that their neighbors’ new toilet was keeping them awake with “intolerable noises,” according to the Milan-based newspaper Il Giornale.
Full story at https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/18/italy-noisy-toilet/
And we thought judicial issues were messy in the US...
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@eobox91103 said in A neighbor’s noisy toilet is a human rights violation, Italy’s top court rules:
Italy’s top court has added a new human rights violation to a list commonly thought to include enslavement, torture and forced starvation: the sound of a toilet flushing at night. That country’s supreme court ... concluded a 19-year legal battle that began when a couple living in a flat near La Spezia complained that their neighbors’ new toilet was keeping them awake with “intolerable noises,” according to the Milan-based newspaper Il Giornale.
Full story at https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/18/italy-noisy-toilet/
And we thought judicial issues were messy in the US...
Washington Post articles are (for me) behind a paywall... Just saying...
Here is another link to the same general story: HERE
Truth be told, if my neighbor's toilet was a full 3dB OVER what the WW-II-era treaty's maximum noise level, then I'd likely be upset too! (Remember that the dB scale is logarithmic!)
But I also think the idea that the problem is the freaking TOILET is actually FUNNY....
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@bi4smooth said in A neighbor’s noisy toilet is a human rights violation, Italy’s top court rules:
But I also think the idea that the problem is the freaking TOILET is actually FUNNY....
...and that it took nineteen years to resolve.
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