--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A German Man Was Evicted Because His Sex Swing Was Too Squeaky by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Aug 22, 2014 9:11 PM UTC  Here's an example of one. Here's an example of one.Rick Madonik—Toronto Star via Getty Images by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Aug 22, 2014 9:11 PM UTC It turns out that the only worse thing than having upstairs neighbors who tap dance or have a newborn is living in the same apartment as a man with a very squeaky sex swing (and a very active, um, social life). A German court ruled Friday that a landlady had the right to evict a tenant who broke his rental agreement of keeping quiet between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. by using his “very old,” loud, chain sex swing, the Associated Press reports. 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"}}]}] ```