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Farmer Ordered to Ditch Cowbells

By: AFP Jul 19th 2012 9:25AM

VIENNA - There are few things more typically Alpine than the gentle ringing of cow bells, but one Austrian farmer has been fined because those of his herd were too noisy, authorities said Thursday. RELATED: Play the Who's Cutest Game Now! Two families in the village of Stallhofen in the southeastern Austrian state of Styria filed a complaint with a local court, which ruled in their favour, the president of the court Gerhard Goedl told AFP. "The court ruled that the manner in which the farmer kept his cows was unbearable for his neighbours," Goedl said of the ruling which was published this week. The problem, he explained, was that the cows' bells were banging against a metal ...

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