Singapore Court Fines French Student S$600 for Licking Vending Machine Straw in Viral Video

A Singapore court fined 19-year-old French student Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien S$600 (US$465) on July 30 after he pleaded guilty to public nuisance. He licked a straw from an iJooz juice vending machine on March 12, then posted the video on Instagram captioned "city is not safe." iJooz replaced all 500 straws in the dispenser afterward. The penalty sits below the S$2,000 maximum for the offence.