This certainly leafed him with a bad taste in his mouth. An 86-year-old Englishman was hit with a preposterous fine for littering after two enforcement officers saw him spit out a leaf that had blown into his mouth. Roy Marsh had stopped for a rest while walking through a car park in the tourist town … Read more
An Indian actress who claims she didn’t know she had to declare a garland of flowers she travelled with has been hit with a $2,000 fine after landing in Australia. Navya Nair, who had travelled from Kochi in India to Singapore before her final leg onwards to Melbourne on Saturday, was carrying a jasmine gajra … Read more
A doctor in Australia found himself stuck between a rock and a hard place. A Queensland surgeon was reprimanded and slapped with a $10,000 fine for snapping a photo of a coma patient’s penis, which featured a swastika tattoo, and then sharing it in a WhatsApp group chat, according to the New Zealand Herald. A … Read more
An airport worker who was brutally assaulted by a man banned from boarding his flight to Bali will receive thousands of dollars in compensation from her attacker. The woman was working at Perth Airport when a traveler became aggressive waiting to check in for a flight on Feb. 25. The Indian man, 43, was told … Read more
A Melbourne landscaper says he is being treated like a “murderer or a drug dealer” by his local council after he was slapped with an $11,500 [$7,781 USD] fine for filling in a dangerous hole. The fine was followed by a demand to inspect his property for “unsafe” building work after he took his story … Read more
A spring day in the park was flushed down the toilet for a local mom after she was fined $50 for letting her four-year-old take an emergency wee outside. Last Saturday, Michiko Sasaki, 46, and her young son, Kobe, were having a nice time at the Battery Playscape in Battery Park City when the boy … Read more
SYDNEY — A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport. The incident, after a 3-hour Air New Zealand flight from Auckland, occurred last December and a Sydney court fined the 53-year-old man $395 for offensive behavior in February, officials said Friday. The incident … Read more
Filmmakers of the high-speed “Fast & Furious” franchise were ordered Friday to pay a $1 million fine after a stuntman broke his skull while filming the ninth installment. Joe Watts reported falling 25 feet head-first onto the concrete ground during a staged fight scene while filming “F9: The Fast Saga” in July 2019 at Warner … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The country’s largest Christian university is being fined $37.7 million by the federal government amid accusations that it misled students about the cost of its graduate programs. Grand Canyon University, which has more than 100,000 students, mostly in online programs, faces the largest fine of its kind ever issued by the U.S. … Read more
This dog had the need for speed. A Slovakian man was fined when a traffic camera captured his dog happily behind the wheel of his car, driving over the speed limit in the western Slovakian village of Šterusy. Slovakian police had some fun sharing the news of their interaction with the driving pooch and its … Read more
The cat’s out the bag. The SEC is blunt with their consequences. Ashton Kutcher and his wife, Mila Kunis, reportedly owe the Securities and Exchange Commission $1 million in fines after the SEC found that the embattled couple had been conducting unregistered offers of crypto asset securities. The government agency also claimed in a press … Read more
Udderly gross and guilty. A Canadian real estate agent was slapped with a $15K fine after home surveillance footage captured him going into a client’s fridge between showings and laying his lips on the family’s milk container for a refreshing sip of vitamin D. “This was unprofessional in so many ways,” seller Lyska Fullerton told The … Read more
This “runway” attire wasn’t going to fly. Another day another traveler with a bold new way to game the luggage fine system. An Australian teen was slapped with a fine after attempting to circumvent an airline baggage fees — by donning over 13 pounds of clothing, as seen in a video blowing up online. “I … Read more
This bedroom bust-up proved embarrassing and expensive. A woman who was thrown out of her boyfriend’s bedroom naked after they fought about how he was hogging the bed has been ordered to pay $120 compensation for damaging his door. Naomi Pickwick, 32, was arrested after she used two kitchen knives to hammer on Dominic Barbour’s … Read more
It was a case of jaws and order. A Chinese food blogger has been fined nearly $19,000 after filming herself cooking and devouring a great white shark for social media clout. On Saturday, officials in the city Nanchong announced that they’d slapped the exotica-loving epicurean, known as Jin, with a 125,000 yuan ($18,522) fine for … Read more
A controversial bowhunting couple — famous for flaunting hunting trophies to hundreds of thousands of followers on social media — has been fined a whopping $133,000 for allegedly trafficking animals in Nebraska. The pair were sentenced last week in a federal court in Omaha in what’s being labeled the largest poaching case in state history. … Read more
A tourist has learned a very expensive lesson after he was fined for feeding biscuits to a dingo. The 23-year-old Australian man was waiting in line for a ferry on the island of K’gari (Fraser Island), 155 miles north of Brisbane, when a bystander photographed him brazenly feeding the wild dog – known as wongari … Read more