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from the next-time-send-it-to-the-chief dept.
According to The Guardian:
The unnamed woman, a resident of Petrer in Alicante, south-east Spain, posted the photo on her Facebook page with the comment "Park where you bloody well please and you won't even be fined".
The police tracked her down within 48 hours and fined her.
Apparently, this is allowed in Spain so that police can "avenge their dishonor".
This is exactly the sort of behavior that leads to public distrust of police.
This story is a new take on online liberties in Spain:
A woman in Spain has been fined €800 (£570) [$886] after she took a picture of a police car parked in a disabled bay. She fell victim to a controversial new gagging law in the the country that prohibits 'the unauthorised use of images of police officers that might jeopardise their or their family's safety or that of protected facilities or police operations.'
Spanish story (more elaborate) here
I'd add a snarky comment here, but everything I came up with is just trolling.
Summing up my feelings: Spanish police: SRSLY, WTF?!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 18 2015, @07:31PM
You are in countries where there is no rule of law.
This may be true, but based on what you said...
I last visited during Ramadan; I (secretly) ate on my normal schedule. This was a jailing offense where I was at the time, and the Swiss embassy would have likely been powerless, had I been caught.
Isn't this an example of a law?
Putting pedant aside for a second... Really? It's their country. It's their laws. If you don't like it, then don't go there. For example, could you imagine an American going to Paris and saying "I was walking down the street with my rifle, but the police arrested me, they are uncivilized barbarians with no laws!" Or a German visiting the United States and saying "I was sunbathing in the nude on a beach, and the police arrested me, they are uncivilized barbarians with no laws!"
Different cultures have different norms and standards and priorities. You can argue whether there "should" be a law like not eating during Ramadan, but that's a very different argument than the one you made saying they are uncivilized and you take your life into your own hands by visiting.