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 band DDT, Yuri Shevchuk, was fined $800 under an administrative article for “discrediting” the Russian army. At a concert in Ufa, he gave an anti-war speech, saying, among other things, that “the homeland is not the president’s ass, which must be kissed all the time,” reports...
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…
A woman who violated the rules of conduct on an airplane faces a whopping $81 fine, the largest monetary penalty imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to date. The New York Post writes about it. On July 950, 6 aboard an American…
In St. Petersburg (Russia), Russian citizen Artur Dmitriev was detained and fined for writing a quote from Russian President Vladimir Putin on a poster. Ukrayinska Pravda writes about this. During the picket, Dmitriev walked around with a poster on which was written a quote from ...
Football club West Ham United fined its defender Kurt Zouma the maximum possible amount of 250 thousand pounds ($ 340 thousand), and the British Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals took two cats from him. What happened, told the edition of the BBC. It all started...
For the second time in a decade, Californians will face mandatory restrictions on outdoor water use as the state experiences another drought and voluntary water conservation efforts have failed, according to KTLA5. The rules adopted on January 4 by the State Council for the Control of ...
Two American tourists entered the Colosseum early in the morning for a beer. Writes about this BBC. They were seen seated on the second ring of the ancient gladiatorial stadium at approximately 05:30 local time. At night, entry to the nearly 2000-year-old monument is prohibited. Both ...