Five years in prison for noise pollution

One of these news of the absurd type of stories, where a former Barcelona bar owner is convicted of noise pollution and sentenced to five years in jail.

Holy crap. Noise pollution? In Spain!? What's next, jail time for bears shitting in the woods?

The hilarious (well maybe not for the owner) part was that the noise levels were measured to be a whole 43.7 decibels. Enough to cause severe psychological problems (as claimed by the neighbors)?

Here's a table to help you out:

50 dBA	Refrigerator at 1 m distance, bird twitter outside at 15 m distance
45 dBA	Noise of normal living; talking, or radio in the background
43.7 dBA	Go to jail for five years
40 dBA	Distraction when learning or concentration is possible
35 dBA	Very quiet room fan at low speed at 1 m distance
25 dBA	Sound of breathing at 1 m distance
0 dBA	Auditory threshold

Does this mean five years in the big house for my neighbors with the annoying yapping dog?

I wish.