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A Dutchman sick of noise from the Irish pub next door nailed the doors shut, drilled a hole in the wall and flooded the crowded bar with his hosepipe.

Murphy's pub, in Deventer, was full of people celebrating an annual carnival when the water came gushing in.

Pub manager Rianne Jansen said people tried to get out but couldn't as the doors had been nailed shut.

She said the water which was coming out of a garden hose was making the wooden floors of the bar slippy and could have caused injury to her guests.

Neighbour Tom van den Belt who admitted he blocked the doors, drilled a hole in the wall and then flooded the pub before calling out the fire brigade told police he was sick and tired of the noise from the pub.

He has now threatened to set off a stink bomb if the late night parties continue.

"The noise is unbearable. We want to be able to sleep and have now declared war," Mr van Belt told the daily De Telegraaf.

He says arguments over the noise have been going on for three years and complaints to the town council have fallen on deaf ears.