Los Angeles court tells dogs when to stop barking
Baku, November 3 (AZERTAC).The Los Angeles city court decided to solve the problem of dogs barking with the help of establishing a kind of a schedule for local dogs. The new court decision has become a worthy replenishment of the wide collection of ambiguous and even strange US laws, such as, for example, a ban for visitors of Miami Beach to bring pigs to the sea or a ban for residents of Massachusetts to transport monkeys on the back seats of their cars.
Disrespect for the new standards of dog barking may cost dog-owners a pretty penny, which will especially hurt in conditions of a growing financial crisis. From now on, Los Angeles dogs are allowed to bark incessantly for no longer than 10 minutes. Every minute on top of this will cost dog-owners $1,000.
The abundance of amusing and even funny laws in the US became a byword long ago. Indeed, hardly anyone will be able to refrain from smiling when reading that witches are outlawed in Massachusetts or that it is forbidden to train dogs in Hartford, Connecticut.
Meanwhile, many of these regulations can be easily explained by the law of precedents which played and important role in the establishment of the US legal system. Because the US legal system was built according to the Anglo-Saxon norms, the main source of US laws became the legal precedent, or a court decision on a certain case which had power to establish legal norms.
The sources of some other amusing laws are much more difficult to find. For example, why only the owners of at least two cows are allowed to wear cowboy boots or why it is not allowed to keep ice-cream in the back pockets of trousers on Sundays. One can only guess what a headache someone caused themselves by placing a monkey on the back seat of their car or bringing their favourite pig to the beach. In practice, judges convict offenders even if they admit that the law is archaic.
At least, everything is clear with the Los Angeles lovers of barking. The judge acted at the request of local resident Gary Leonard who endured the shrill barking of his neighbour`s dog for a year but finally gave in and complained. In response, the city court bound the municipal authorities to introduce amendments to the law of keeping pets. The speed with which the decision was taken indicates that US courts do not have more serious complaints than loud dog barking. The high fine for loud barking is also surprising. At the time when desperate people build barricades in the streets and demand jobs, the requirement to pay several thousand bucks for their dog`s barking may seem like a bad joke.
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