This is from an undated news article in Ananova News:
A German has been ordered to stop laughing out loud in the woods after joggers complained he was disturbing the peace.
Accountant Joachim Bahrenfeld, 54, from Datteln said he goes to the woods after work and at weekends to have a good belly laugh.
"It's part of living for me, like eating, drinking and breathing. I feel much better when I laugh, it's freeing and healthy," he said.
But he now faces a £4,000 fine or six months jail if he laughs out loud again after a jogger successfully took him to court saying he was disturbing the peace.
The poor man! My guess is that he went out into the woods because his house just wasn't funny enough. Or maybe because he lived in an apartment and didn't want to disturb the neighbors.
But now some jogger has demanded the right to absolute silence in the woods, and a court has complied with that demand. Herr Bahrenfeld must go without his healing laugh after a day spent making double entries and footing numbers and all the other mind-numbing things that go with being an accountant. Soon he'll need medication or worse.
Beware, lest it come to a town near you.
1 comment:
Now I truly have heard it all. Talk about violating one's free speech (or laughter, in this case)!
Poor guy...all he wanted to do was enjoy life and then an ill-tempered jogger (and frankly, I can understand why anyone who runs would be ill-tempered as running was only meant to be done by one being chased by a large attack-dog) comes along and spoils his fun.
Aren't there more woods in Germany...isn't there a whole "Black Forest" there (or is my geography bad? It usually is.)
And who knows, maybe this accountant gets so stressed by his job (which I could definitely understand, being that he deals with math all day) that he needs to laugh and laugh hard, rather than go to work and shoot everyone in disgruntled postal-worker form.
Now poor Joachim Bahrenfeld must suffer in silence.
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