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No, NOT from The Onion, but The Telegraph....
A nagging wife has been given an ASBO after keeping neighbours awake for three years with her constant quibbling.
Julie Griffiths, 43, breached a noise abatement order a staggering 47 times in three months this year, a court heard.
Residents living near the Griffiths' £75,000 mid-terraced home in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs., spent three years listening to her berating her long-suffering husband Norman, 63.
Griffiths was first served a notice in 1999 and was fined £500 when she breached it in 2010.
Stoke-on-Trent Magistrates Court heard her behaviour persisted over the next two years and environmental health officers installed monitoring equipment in a neighbour's home this July.
On Wednesday Griffiths pleaded guilty to failing to comply with the requirements of a noise abatement notice.
Staffordshire Magistrates Court imposed a five-year ASBO which prohibits her from engaging in behaviour which causes or is likely to cause a nuisance, disturbance, harassment or alarm to her neighbours.
She was warned she could go to jail for five years if she breaches the anti-social order, fined £500 and told to pay £250 costs and a £15 victim surcharge ....