ANDREA SEABROOK, host: Now, this has probably happened to you. You're at a movie but there's some guy behind you.</s>Unidentified Woman: It was nobody's fault…</s>Unidentified Woman: Unidentified Man #1: Who is she? I don't remember her. What's her name? Well, then, who's that?</s>Unidentified Woman: I was looking up.</s>Unidentified Woman: Unidentified Man #1: No, no, no, no, no. That's the girlfriend. The other one's the girlfriend.</s>ANDREA SEABROOK, host: Or you're at an art museum and there's a jerk trying to impress his date.</s>ANDREA SEABROOK, host: Unidentified Man #2: Now, in that painting, you can really feel the torment that that artist is going through because…</s>SEQABROOK: Well, this kind of thing could get a lot worse in Tuscany. If a certain bill passes in the regional parliament, that movie dialogue in the theater or precious silence at the art gallery could now be interrupted by this.</s>SEABRROK: The proposed law would allow pet owners in Tuscany to take their animals to any public place. Now, personally, I'm all for it. I would love to take my basset hounds to the opera or the skating rink. Imagine it: hounds on ice. But I'm reasonable. I can see problems with this idea. I mean, what if I take my pooches to "La Boheme" and they love it so much they sing along?</s>ANDREA SEABROOK, host: After all, it is Pooch-ini.</s>ANDREA SEABROOK, host: Even the famous director and committed dog owner, Franco Zeffirelli, told the Italian press, I'd never take my dogs to La Scala.</s>SEABRROK: Tuscany, by the way, includes Florence. The city is already a little too loud and rowdy for some people's taste. The reason? American students. That story's still to come on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
A bill proposed in an Italian regional parliament may have cacophonous results. If the bill becomes law, pets will be allowed to accompany their owners to any public place.