Here’s a Reuter’s story that I picked up through the first blog that I ever came across years ago, Fark.com.

Honey, Remember to Turn on the Rooster Booster…

BERLIN (Reuters) – Before leaving on vacation, a German couple set up a
loudspeaker and timer with the sound of a crowing cock to blast their
neighbors every morning.

After complaints, police in the northern town of Itzehoe obtained a
warrant to enter the house and discovered the gear with the speakers
aimed at the neighbors and rigged to a timer.

"The apparatus switched on between 2 and 4 o’clock in the
morning and produced a cock crowing at an enormous volume. This would
last for 20 minutes with breaks in between," police said.

Police confiscated the gear and charged the vacationers, who
are still away, with bodily harm and disturbing the peace. The
neighbors had no history of antagonism.

I have to say that the headline writers at Reuters are a bit more mature than me.  I would have been too tempted to resist this obvious alternative, "Honey, remember to set the cock clock…"