Litter bug sees bank account embargoed: "34 year old Murcia man, Daniel Hidalgo, has won a case against Murcia City Hall, after his bank account was embargoed when he dropped a tetra-brick chocolate drink on the ground.
Daniel told 20minutos.es that he does not remember whether he threw the container to the ground, or if it just fell from his hands, but as it happened he was stopped by two policemen who said ‘You are a swine’, and fined him 30 €.
This was back in 2002 and he said that he told the police that because he had been insulted by them he was not going to pay the fine. He thought that was the end of it, but six years later when he went to get some money from the bank, he discovered the City Hall had embargoed his account.
He then complained that six years on the fine would have expired in any case, and although the City Hall then agreed, they still removed 1,000 € from his account for making the challenge. He then took on a legal aid lawyer to get the money returned and warned others that it was a fraud. ‘Who is going to spend 1,000 € to get back 30’, he said, although the council paid him back 45 € - the original fine plus interest"
