Maurice, like all roosters, loves crowing but he does it in a somewhat exaggerated way, at least according to his human neighbors who dragged him to court to get him to stop (he waits shortly to know his fate) . Another rooster, on the other hand, has already been sentenced in Switzerland.
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Maurice, like all roosters, loves crowing but he does it in a somewhat exaggerated way, at least according to his human neighbors who dragged him to court to get him to stop (he waits shortly to know his fate) . Another cockinstead, it was already convicted in Switzerland.
The first curious episode comes from France and precisely from Saint-Pierre, on the island of Oléron. Here lives the rooster Maurice, who "cheers" many times a day and too early in the morning.
The people who live near the cockpit are particularly annoyed by his crow and, failing to close the matter peacefully with Maurice's owner, Corinne Fesseau, they have decided to take a drastic stance towards this situation: denounce the rooster to the authority!
The retired couple who dragged the rooster to court did not appear last Thursday at the Tribunal de grande instance in Rochefort which will have to judge Maurice but there were instead the owner and many supporters.
The story of MauriceIn fact, it has become a national case. The rooster is indeed considered the symbol of threatened rural culture and there are many who defend it as an exponent of the noises of the countryside that risk disappearing. His fate, however, still remains pending: the decision on his fate will in fact only be taken on 5 September.
A second rooster, on the other hand, has already been condemned in Switzerland by the Court of Appeals in Building Matters for his vocalizations and will have to remain in a soundproofed environment for ten hours every day.
It is a specimen that lives in the countryside of Zurich and that cheers between 14 and 44 times per hour! Also in this case the neighbors exhausted by the affair denounced him in court with a lot of overwhelming evidence: the recordings of his singing which, analyzed with an app, reached 84 decibels.
He was therefore given a time to be able to sing freely in the open air or in his enclosure (from 8 to 22 on weekdays and from 9 to 22 on holidays) but the rest of the time he will have to be in a closed and soundproofed place.
You may not know that this is by no means the first time an animal has been at the center of a court case. Among the various cases, the most curious occurred in 2008 in Macedonia where a bear was found guilty of stealing honey. Since it was a protected species, the National Parks Service had to compensate the beekeeper.
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