Can you believe . . . ???

Well, according to one chart I found, here, piano practice is louder. What exactly was the problem here? :confused:

The problem appears to be noise:

Next door neighbour Rachel O'Connor told the court she was frequently late for work because she overslept having been awake most of the night because of the noise.

I suspect the noise complaint would have been filed regardless of the source. If you're kept up all night by someone practicing the piano, your claim would be just as valid. And I'm a piano player!

I see it as having respect for your neighbors, a concept that seems to be interpreted differently depending on which side of the wall you're on.
 
Houses must be pretty close together...as hard as I try I can't hear my neighbors fucking...:eek:
 
Without knowledge of the type of house construction, it's difficult to be accurate, but there was a time in the UK when houses did not feature much by way of acoustic insulation between properties.

I wonder if the complainant has heard of sleeping pills ?
 
From the online journal: The Register.


A Tyne and Wear woman whose raucous lovemaking earned her an ASBO and multiple cuffings will declare in court that the order is a violation of her human rights.

Caroline Cartwright, 48, of Washington, was dragged before magistrates back in April for five breaches of a noise abatement order requiring her to turn down the volume during intimate moments with hubby Steve.

Neighbours described her performances as "murder" and "unnatural", the Telegraph notes, and "even the local postman and a woman, who walked past the house taking her child to school, complained".

Sunderland City Council installed "specialist equipment" in neighbour Rachel O'Connor's flat after she reported she was "frequently late for work because she overslept having been awake most of the night because of the noise".

The kit recorded noise levels of between 30 and 40 decibels, "with the highest being 47 decibels".

The court imposed the aforementioned ASBO, ordering her to stop "making excessive noise, knocking, shouting, screaming or vocalisation that can be heard in neighbouring properties or outside the house".

However, she was arrested on 18, 22 and 26 April when neighbours complained she was back on the job.

Cartwright has now appealed the four-year ASBO, on the grounds that she is "unable to control her vocalisation during lovemaking, and any attempt at restricting her behaviour is a breach of her human rights".

Newcastle Crown Court heard she will argue a breach of Article 8 of the human rights act "if her ability to have sex with her husband Steven, 48, is interfered with", as the Northern Echo puts it.

To back her case of "being powerless to control herself during lovemaking", Cartwright will call a "consultant in psychosexual medicine" to support her "involuntary vocalisation" defence. ®
 
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