Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, a 19-year-old French student in Singapore, pleads guilty to a public nuisance charge and is fined S$600 ($465) after filming himself licking a straw from an orange-juice vending machine and returning it to the dispenser.Prosecutors had sought the maximum S$2,000 ($1,551) on grounds the stunt risked undermining public confidence in vending hygiene, but the court cited an early guilty plea, a lack of evidence that others used the straw and the defendant’s remorse and ordered only the fine with no community service.The
vending operator reported the incident to
police, sanitized the machine, replaced all 500 straws, says it will install individually wrapped straws that unlock only after payment, and
immigration authorities will decide whether Maximilien keeps his student pass.