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Kamakura, a seaside city south of Tokyo, Japan, has placed a ban on people eating while on the move, which is particularly aimed towards tourists to prevent littering.
The city, which received 20 million visitors in 2018, enacted the policy on 1 April 2019 to try and prevent the increasing build-up of litter around hotspots as tourists eat while exploring.
Although the ordinance isn’t being backed up by fines or legal consequences, signs in Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese reading ‘No eating while walking’ are being placed throughout the city to raise awareness of this cultural norm.
Eating whilst walking on the street is frowned upon in Japanese etiquette: it's considered more polite to eat or drink standing near the vending machine, stall or convenience store you purchased from, or waiting until you reach your location in order to reduce littering.
These forceful reminders are much more relaxed form of enforcement than found in Florence, Italy, where a section of the city centre has banned eating on sidewalks, roadways and even shop and house doorways. The consequences for of chowing down in one of these spots? A rather steep €500 fine.
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An American man has been jailed for 150 days, handed three years’ probation, 100 hours of community service and a $5,500 fine for deliberately blocking women’s toilets.
35-year-old Patrick D Beeman has apologised for his bizarre crimes, which he told police were driven by strange urges to do odd things like plug toilets with plastic bottles.
Investigations by Sheboygan, Wisconsin police uncovered a dozen incidents dating
back to April 2017, after a job agency informed them of several toilet-blocking incidents taking place at locations Beeman was working.
In a statement reported by the Sheboygan Press during his sentencing, Beeman said: “I need to make things right and pray forgiveness every day.”
Beeman was apprehended and convicted of five counts of criminal damage (seven more were dismissed), but the judge decided to hand him a stricter custodial sentence than the 30 days in jail prosecutors requested.
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