An Italian pensioner has vowed to fight the "unfairness" of a nearly 900-euro ($975) fine for repairing a pothole. The Guardian published more details. Claudio Trenta was so upset that the local council was unable to repair a 30 cm pothole in a crosswalk in Barlassina, a small…
Morgan Stanley has fined some bankers more than $1 million for doing business on WhatsApp and other messaging platforms. This came as part of an industry-wide investigation, with US regulators imposing record fines for tracking down such omissions. He writes about it...
Two Los Angeles residents were detained and forced to pay fines to keep their cars from being impounded after accidentally using Sentri Lane while crossing the border from Mexico to the US. This lane is only allowed to be used by pre-approved travelers, according to NewYorkPost. "They chained...
To make the meeting with the American policeman as painless as possible for you, you must follow some rules. When a police officer stops a car, the driver can get nervous. However, the officers, in fact, have more reasons to be nervous, because they never know what to expect from a person for ...
An American tourist has been fined for eating ice cream on the steps of a fountain in Rome. A man fell victim to the restrictions of "urban decency" after he sat down to eat at a historic site early in the morning, according to TheGuardian. The American tourist was fined $450. A 55 year old man…
The leader of the rock group DDT, Yuri Shevchuk, was fined $800 under an administrative article about “discrediting” the Russian army. At a concert in Ufa, he made an anti-war speech, saying, among other things, that “the motherland is not the president’s ass, which must be kissed all the time,” reports ...
A Lake County, Florida resident says she faces a $500 fine after she tried to save her dog. Read more about this story told the edition of Yahoo!. Hunter File says she was just trying to do the right thing as she drove to…
A US court has punished Alex Jones, an influential American conspiracy theorist and frequent guest of the Russian Tsargrad channel, by ordering him to pay almost $50 million to the family of a boy who died in a school shooting in Connecticut 10 years ago. More about this told the edition of the BBC. The parents of six-year-old Jesse...
California's Redwood National Park has issued a warning that any visitor caught near the Hyperion tree could face a $5000 fine and up to six months in prison, USAToday reports. Hyperion, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest living ...
A San Francisco couple received a $1500 fine for parking on the road near their home, despite having parked their car there for nearly 40 years, ABC reported. It seemed so unfair. They used this place to park for decades when…