The strangest case of the day: a woman was arrested for blasting Plácido Domingo for 16 years

Online daily Index writes that a woman from Štúrovo, Slovakia was arrested on the grounds of making life-endangering threats. Her crime? Disturbing her neighbours by blasting Plácido Domingo arias for 16 years.

The house of Éva N. is known worldwide as the ‘music house’, as the woman has been blasting Plácido Domingo arias on full volume, so that the music can be heard loudly on the street too, for sixteen years now.

As parameter.sk writes, Éva moved to Štúrovo for business reasons in 1998 and bought a suspiciously cheap house. The seller told Éva that they needed the money fast as they were moving abroad, but as Éva recalled the story, she found out later that the reason why the house was so low-priced was that it is located in a bad neighbourhood.

Not much later, the war with the neighbours broke out: according to Éva, a man jealous of her flourishing business kept breaking in her windows, but the police did nothing, as the neighbours took the man’s side. Later, she started to get annoyed by her closest neighbour’s dog, which, as she recalled, would not stop barking: if there was nothing to bark at, it barked only to keep itself entertained. She asked her neighbour to quiet the dog so that she would be able to get some sleep, but the neighbour only laughed.

The authorities advised Éva to listen to music to dull the sound of barking. This is where things started to really get out of hand and the music became louder and louder.