Today, I took at look at the website of the Moscow Times, one of Russia's leading English-language papers. On it, I found this fascinating little article:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2008/02/15/015.html
Apparently, a court somewhere in Siberia actually had to intervene to settle disputes over bathroom use in a komunalka (communal apartment). The court ordered each party to spend no more than 20 minutes in the bathroom.
The Russian press seems as mystified by this ruling as I am, given how impossible it would be to enforce. But I sort of have to admire them for trying. If I had been able to go to to court to get access to the bathroom at my place in Washington Heights, I would never have moved to Brooklyn.
In the long run, I figure this one will rank right up there with the Italian court that decided a woman can't be found to have been raped if she was wearing blue jeans at the time.
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