A grandmother is facing tens of thousands of dollars in fines after she was busted in a sting operation this weekend for giving revelers rides to the annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. Susie Holland, 61, thought that she would offer a helping hand and make a little extra cash on the side … Read more
Brace yourself. I’ve got a budgie to smuggle. As I’ve found out the hard way, Europeans like to think themselves sophisticated. They had a couple of enlightenment figures write some books a few hundred years ago and now they’re all: “you can’t wipe your mouth with your hand” and “no wearing swimmers off the beach, you … Read more
It’s a picturesque, wealthy European village which celebrities flock to, however all is not so well behind the scenes. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Kylie Minogue and Princess Diana are among the high-profile guests who have visited Italy’s gem Portofino. In 2022, Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker got married at Villa Olivetta, located in the small and … Read more
Flight attendants don’t mean to be fussy when enforcing those annoying in-flight rules — they just don’t want to fined themselves cutting a massive check. “Did you know that flight attendants can get fined $10,000 out of their own money by the FAA?,” claimed American Airlines cabin crew member Keana, 31, in a viral TikTok reveal. “When … 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 US tourist has revealed the moment he received a bill of six figures after a short holiday to Switzerland went horribly wrong. Rene Remund and his wife Linda made the trip last September, a journey the pair had been on previously given it’s where he is originally from. As always, Remund ensured his mobile … Read more
It’s no secret – obesity is the most prevalent epidemic affecting the Western world, but one obesity organization leaders’ idea to curtail the problem has some people raising their eyebrows. “[It’s] quite right to urge that waist measurements be now taken annually from the time a child first goes to school,” Tam Fry, chair of … Read more
A Kiwi grandmother who forgot to declare a chicken sandwich that was in her backpack copped a hefty fine at Brisbane, Australia Airport. June Armstrong, 77, was traveling from Christchurch to Brisbane on May 2 to house-sit for friends, when bio-security officers told her the sandwich she forgot to declare would set her back an … Read more
Talk about checking out. A woman in England recently returned a library book 45 years after she checked it out. The patron brought the book — “Tolkien’s World” by Randel Helms — back to the Blackpool Libraries‘ branch, after borrowing it in 1976. “Could this be our longest overdue book to be returned to the library,” the … Read more
R&B singer Cassie and her husband, Alex Fine, have a fairy-tale romance — from dating to getting married to having two kids in just a span of a few years. The “Me & U” crooner, 37, and the fitness enthusiast, 30, met through her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, when the record producer hired him to … 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
An elderly Russian woman has been fined 40,000 rubles ($490) for “discrediting” her country’s army — by describing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “a handsome young man.” Olga Slegina, 70, was slapped with the penalty by a Moscow court on Tuesday after she made the complimentary comment late last year. According to Russian human rights group … Read more
A vintage vinyl album has made its way back to its home library more than 40 years past its due date. The Toronto Public Library shared a tweet on April 6 showing the album cover and the original library card, with a due date of Oct. 5, 1982. The album made its way back to the Spadina … Read more
Danke! A British woman finally returned a German language textbook to a library in England — nearly 57 years after checking it out as a teenager. Lesley Harrison, 70, could have faced a $2,400 fine for holding on to “Ich Lerne Deutsch” for longer than three weeks, but the North Tyneside Council abolished late return … 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