Reply to A neighbor’s noisy toilet is a human rights violation, Italy’s top court rules on Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:02:12 GMT

eobox91103 — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:02:12 GMT

@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.

Reply to A neighbor’s noisy toilet is a human rights violation, Italy’s top court rules on Wed, 19 Jan 2022 19:34:49 GMT

bi4smooth — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 19:34:49 GMT

@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....