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Brussels to Fine ... Insults

Watch your mouth, or it could cost you

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 5, 2012 12:49 PM CDT | Updated Sep 8, 2012 7:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – Feel like really telling someone off? Keep it off the streets of Brussels, where you could now be fined as much as $315 for the offense. "Any form of insult is from now on punishable, whether it be racist, homophobic, or otherwise," the mayor was quoted as saying yesterday. Brussels is known as family-friendly, AFP reports, but until now the courts were too busy to worry about hurt feelings. Now, officials have agreed that fines starting at $94 can be imposed.

Tintin and his dog Snowy are seen atop the Lombard Building, backdropped by the Brussels' skyline, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011.
Tintin and his dog Snowy are seen atop the Lombard Building, backdropped by the Brussels' skyline, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011.   (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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HANKHILL
Sep 9, 2012 10:07 AM CDT
since when did brussels become an arab land? and i dont like their sprouts either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HarryBeaver
Sep 9, 2012 7:25 AM CDT
Can't let the justice system get rusty do to lack of work.
right2dave
Sep 9, 2012 7:15 AM CDT
New York City is the Same Way!
 

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