This Guy Was Fined For Burping Too Loudly At An Amusement Park
That burp will cost him $84.95.
This is Edin Mehic, a resident of Vienna, Austria, whose favorite food is kebab with lots of onions.
Edin Mehic.
Edin Mehic / Via facebook.com
On Thursday Mehic told a long story on Facebook about how one of his favorite foods led him to belch so loudly that he was slapped with a fine for €70, which is $84.95.
Edin Mehic / Via facebook.com
He told BuzzFeed News he bought a kebab "with a lot of onions like I always do."
After his meal, he took a big sip of Coke and few minutes later he got the urge to belch.
"I burped ... Liberating!" he wrote on Facebook. "Everybody knows this feeling!!!"
Mehic told BuzzFeed News that it was a "normal belch. It didn't make it into my top 5." But the sound may have made an echo because he was sitting under a train bridge.
Then he felt a hand on his shoulder. A police officer appeared and ticketed him for "outraging public decency by belching towards two police officers from a very close distance," Austria's LPD spokesperson Mag. Paul Eidenberger, Insp. told BuzzFeed News.
Heinz Robathin, Mehic's attorney with Robathin & Partner Rechtsanwalts law firm, told BuzzFeed News that belching isn't "OK," but it is "ridiculous" to ticket and fine someone for being rude in a public place like Prater park.
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