The teen, who posted on social media a video of himself licking the straw, could be jailed for more than two years.
  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    ok, so it’s not as simple as the headline makes it seem:

    A French teenager who allegedly licked a straw from an orange juice vending machine and put it back into its dispenser has been charged with committing mischief and being a public nuisance in Singapore.
    …
    Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 18, had posted on Instagram a video of himself performing the act, according to local reports. The video was later widely circulated.

    The company that owns the vending machine, iJooz, says it replaced all 500 straws in the machine’s dispenser after the alleged incident.
    …
    Maximilien had posted his video as an Instagram Story with a caption stating “city is not safe”, according to news reports.

    Many online had reacted with disgust to his video, which was reposted on a community page and picked up by local news outlets.

    ok, so he didn’t just “lick a straw”. the little asshole did it as some sort of viral video trend going around doing public nuisance bullshit for likes and views, posted it online, then got caught. womp-womp.

    it cost the vending machine company to send someone out to replace all the straws and deal with people being upset about the sanitary aspect (asian countries freak out about that sort of thing more than western countries), and it was a whole public thing.

    now, do I think 2 years in jail is fair? no. a big fine and a big public apology (esp on his TikTok or Insta or whatever) should be enough. but this is Singapore, so he’s lucky they aren’t caning him to death.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
      1·
      48 minutes ago

      It says that the charge carries that as a maximum, not that that’s what he’ll get. While i also think two years would be excessive, I absolutely think this moron should be punished severely, if only just to deter all the other morons from pulling shit like this for clicks.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 hours ago

      That’s a max possible sentence, but then it’s also authoritarian hellhole Singapore that executes people for moderate-level drug crimes, so we’ll see how it plays out.

  • TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website
    2·
    40 minutes ago

    Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 18, had posted on Instagram a video of himself performing the act, according to local reports. The video was later widely circulated.

    With a name like that you know his parents were never there and thought that pouring money into him was love

  • claimsou@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 hour ago

    „Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien„ . I hope this is only the birth names and that no one call him that.