BRITAIN — Many an adult can remember their childhood friendships and how moody all involved could become. Best friends who spent “too much” time – or perhaps too much rowdy time – together often found themselves temporarily banned from contact while the adults around them attempted to renew their grip on what precious quiet time they could find. That kind of treatment isn’t just for adults, as a horny British couple recently discovered – courtesy of the local court system.Neighbors never feared 32-year-old Adam Hinton or his 29-year-old girlfriend Kerry Norris, but they did come to dread their date nights. In fact, those special nights of love and lust apparently kept many an uninvolved person up way past their own bedtime.
Those days are at least temporarily gone, thanks to a court order barring Hinton from coming within 110 yards of his sweetheart’s Brighton apartment, so to speak.
According to the Associated Press, Brighton and Hove City Council representative Mike Taggart describes Norris as “a classic nightmare neighbor,” which makes sense, since her behavior contributed to so many sleepless nights for those around her.
Among the sins said to have been perpetuated by the couple were the sounds of loud, thumping music, a headboard banging against the wall, and screamed vulgarities – and those were just the things Norris shared with her neighbors without their permission when she had company. While by herself, the saucy wench is said to have sunbathed naked in her yard and publicly directed a loud stream of traditionally unprintable language toward a 6-year-old child who lived in her apartment building.
After complaining to the police for two years, the long but slow hand of the law finally decided to do something about it.
It’s this kind of behavior that Taggart says is at the heart of the court’s ruling.
“It’s about allowing your neighbors to have a normal, decent life without being disturbed,” he explains.
How much good it will do is unknown, given that Norris has previously ignored court orders insisting that she keep here noise level down. In fact, it’s that very refusal to abide by legal mandates – and the fact the city council ultimately needed to help some of her building’s former residents find newer and quieter homes — that inspired it to petition the court for a new solution.
So far, Norris has avoided being evicted, but her boyfriend has been handed a $350 fine and she has been pressured into playing $560 in fines and court costs for violating what Taggart calls the “noise abatement order.”
