--- title: German Man Evicted for Squeaky Sex Swing description: A German court ruled that a landlady had the right to evict a tenant for using his "very old," loud, chain sex swing. canonical: https://time.com/3162149/berlin-landlady-evicts-man-with-sex-swing/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-22T21:11:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:42.376Z og:title: A German man was evicted because his sex swing was too squeaky og:description: And you thought your neighbors were bad og:url: https://time.com/3162149/berlin-landlady-evicts-man-with-sex-swing/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt914e07f2fc96bf0f/6986a0a1e53abac1b44d4205/470127965.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4367 og:image:height: 2456 og:image:alt: A new Swingers club, og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A German man was evicted because his sex swing was too squeaky twitter:description: And you thought your neighbors were bad twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt914e07f2fc96bf0f/6986a0a1e53abac1b44d4205/470127965.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A German Man Was Evicted Because His Sex Swing Was Too Squeaky > Sponsored content. 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Neighbors filed numerous complaints since the swing’s 2012 installation. The court said that by using the swing late at night, it “would no longer correspond to normal rental use, and must therefore not be tolerated as socially acceptable,” AP reports. \[[_AP_](http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/german-man-evicted-squeaky-swing-set-sex-prop)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3162149/berlin-landlady-evicts-man-with-sex-swing/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3162149/berlin-landlady-evicts-man-with-sex-swing/"},"headline":"A German Man Was Evicted Because His Sex Swing Was Too Squeaky","datePublished":"2014-08-22T21:11:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:42.376Z","description":"And you thought your neighbors were bad","url":"https://time.com/3162149/berlin-landlady-evicts-man-with-sex-swing/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt914e07f2fc96bf0f/6986a0a1e53abac1b44d4205/470127965.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt914e07f2fc96bf0f/6986a0a1e53abac1b44d4205/470127965.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A new Swingers club,","caption":"A new Swingers club,","creditText":"Rick Madonik—Toronto Star via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3162149/berlin-landlady-evicts-man-with-sex-swing/","name":"A German Man Was Evicted Because His Sex Swing Was Too Squeaky"}}]}] ```