Italian man fined over cockerel's early-morning crowing

An Italian pensioner has been fined because his cockerel kept waking up the neighbours at the crack of dawn. A police officer staked out the home of Angelo Boletti in Castiraga Vidardo, a town in Lombardy, to prove the truth of neighbours’ complaints that the bird, called Carlino, crowed at 4.30am. Boletti, 83, was outraged to be then fined €166 (£150). He was found to have violated rules which stipulate that pets must be kept at a minimum distance of 10 metres from neighbouring homes. Carlino was in a cage in Boletti’s garden.

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