A conflict between neighbours over a loud loo has been resolved after nearly 20 years. In 2003, four brothers installed a lavatory in a seaside apartment on Golfo dei Poeti, off Italy’s north-western coast. The husband and wife who lived next door complained, claiming the loo’s noisy flush kept them up at night. As the warring parties refused to back down, the case was heard in court, the appeal court and then Italy’s Supreme Court, which ruled in favour of the couple. “In far less time than this case took, Albert Einstein wrote the theory of relativity, explaining the whole Universe,” wrote the Italian newspaper Il Giornale. “At the judicial level, we are a great big, gigantic clogged loo.”
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