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A 61-year-old German woman has been fined €800 for blowing a whistle down the telephone at a call-centre worker and damaging her hearing.

A US woman had been fined for having dried out grass during a drought.

Lori claims she has been trying to get her grass to grow, adding: ''I'm glad to try to reseed again when it cools off, but we're in the middle of a heat wave.''

It's the law in D.C. - recycle or face a fine from the Department of Public Works. Dupont Circle resident Patricia White says she has been fined eight times for throwing homemade cat litter in her trash. The fines total $2,000. According to White, the inspector admitted to digging through trash looking for violations.

A 66-year-old British woman was fined and ordered to wear an ankle monitor as punishment for selling a goldfish to a 14-year-old.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (WUSA) -- Eleven-year-old aspiring veterinarian, Skylar Capo, sprang into action the second she learned that a baby woodpecker in her Dad's backyard was about to be eaten by the family cat.
But roughly two weeks later, that same woman from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service showed up at Capo's front door. This time, Capo says the woman was accompanied by a state trooper. Capo refused to accept a citation, but was later mailed a notice to appear in U.S. District Court for unlawfully taking a migratory bird. She's also been slapped with a $535 fine

CBS) LIVERMORE, Calif. - As shortcuts go, this was an expensive one. A Livermore woman caught walking across railroad tracks near her home got a $6,000 fine for trespassing...Laura Rensink, a veterinarian and mother of three, said that during her lunch break on June 7 she crossed the tracks on foot. "I went over here and crossed this way to get home,"

Indian tribe gets fined for using river that was closed for boating that they had asked to be closed.

“Why were you in China?” asked the passport control officer, a woman with the appearance and disposition of a prison matron.

“None of your business,” I said.

Her eyes widened in disbelief.

“Excuse me?” she asked.

“I’m not going to be interrogated as a pre-condition of re-entering my own country,” I said.

This did not go over well.

Municipal codes could be very lucrative for most municipalities if they were enforced...they decided to start enforcing one little-known regulation in Queens