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French student guilty of licking straw from vending machine and putting it back into dispenser

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A French student has been fined 600 Singapore dollars (roughly £350) after admitting to a public nuisance offence in a Singapore court on Thursday.Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 19, pleaded guilty to the charge, which stemmed from an incident at a shopping centre in March when he filmed himself removing a straw from an orange juice vending machine, licking it, and placing it back inside.His lawyers described the act as a stunt designed for his social media audience.

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Instead, they requested the highest possible fine of 2,000 Singapore dollars (approximately £1,150), arguing that the deliberately staged act threatened to erode public trust in the hygiene standards of a...

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