Sleeping in separate beds? Nasal strips not working? Already tried those white noise machines with no success? Sometimes it takes drastic measures. Apparently the continuous sound of a freight train in bed next one South Carolina lady drove her to extreme measures. Following numerous sleepless nights, she tried to banish her hubby to the living room sofa. When he informed her that she would have to call a SWAT team to get him out of the bedroom, she took him seriously and phoned the cops. (Source: shine.yahoo.com)

Apparently, no laws are on the books to cope with a snoring issue, so the cops didn’t file any charges and let the couple work it out by themselves.

Even there is probably not a law on the books anywhere in the world for couples to sort out their snoring issues, some have created their own household rules. Probably the most common solution is for the snorer to move to a separate room out of hearing distance of the annoyed spouse.

In fact a recent survey found that a lot more couples now a days are sleeping in separate rooms just to get away from the annoying sound of snoring. Currently 25% of couples put a wall (or a floor of the house, in the worse cases) between themselves every night. It is predicted that by the year 2015, almost sixty percent of custom homes will have twin master bedrooms, as predicted by The National Association of Home Builders.

Now that may sound like a good solution if you can afford it. If you can’t, and your spouse falls into the almost fifty percent of men with a snoring problem, there are a lot of other ways to stop snoring. But if changing sleeping positions, nasal sprays, allergy medicines, loosing weight, stopping smoking or eliminating alcohol hasn’t helped, then unfortunately calling the police is not a solution when all else fails. But don’t despair as there are stop snoring devices that have been proven to be 99% effective and are not nearly as drastic as calling the cops.