{"id":62578,"date":"2020-09-08T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tourist-slapped-with-1000-fine-after-taking-sand-from-beach\/"},"modified":"2020-09-08T22:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:52:00","slug":"tourist-slapped-with-1000-fine-after-taking-sand-from-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tourist-slapped-with-1000-fine-after-taking-sand-from-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tourist slapped with $1,000 fine after taking sand from beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tourist slapp<\/a>ed with $1,000 fine after taking sand from beach<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 8, 2020 |<\/span> 3:52pm <\/p>\n

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\n Sand snatching has become increasingly common in Sardinia<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

\n They were ill-gotten grains.<\/p>\n

A French tourist\u2019s attempt to take the beach home with him backfired after he was fined $1,000 for smuggling Italian sand in his luggage.<\/p>\n

The unnamed man was busted Sept. 1 at Sardinia\u2019s Cagliari Elmas Airport with a bottle containing 4.4 pounds of sand from the picturesque island.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottle was confiscated and is in now in our operating room where we hold these confiscated items,\u201d a spokesman for the island\u2019s forestry police told CNN about the gritty crime.<\/p>\n

Since 2017, it has been illegal to snatch sand from Sardinia\u2019s beaches, with penalties including jail time and fines between $600 and $3,550, depending on the amount and from where it was taken.<\/p>\n

The heavy-sanded measures were imposed in response to beachgoers increasingly plundering Sardinia\u2019s shores for granules \u2014 especially the pink and white variety, reports Travel<\/a> & Leisure. They then either hold onto the sand as a keepsake or sell it as a souvenir.<\/p>\n

Sand stealing has \u201cbecome a very known phenomenon here in Europe,\u201d said the spokesperson, adding that \u201cat the end of the year we usually have many bottles of sand accumulated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThankfully, controls have become \u201cmuch more rigorous\u201d over the past three years, per the spokesman. Along with the aforementioned penalties, beach-based law enforcement is collaborating more closely with state police, while the public is urged to alert authorities if they see tourists swiping sand.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first case of clandestine beachcombing to befall Sardinia. Last summer, a French couple was jailed for pilfering 88 pounds of white sand from the idyllic isle.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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