{"id":68530,"date":"2014-02-08T23:05:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=68530"},"modified":"2014-02-08T23:05:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:05:37","slug":"strewth-police-in-sydney-triple-on-the-spot-fines-for-swearing-to-270","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=68530","title":{"rendered":"Strewth! Police in Sydney TRIPLE on-the-spot fines for swearing to \u00a3270"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sydney.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-68529\" alt=\"\u057d\u056b\u0564\u0576\u0565\u0575\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sydney.jpg\" width=\"507\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sydney.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sydney-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Sydney-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Australians are known for their use of fruity language, but those living in Sydney may wish to clean up their vocabulary after police decided to triple the on-the-spot fine for swearing.<\/p>\n<p>Using a profanity in the state capital of New South Wales will now cost $500 (\u00a3270) &#8211; more than the penalty for jumping a red light or damaging a property.<\/p>\n<p>The amount is far greater than in other states including Victoria ($250) and Queensland ($100).<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers tried to block the hike on grounds swearing is so common in Australia that even the most profane words can be said to be part of the vernacular.<br \/>\nThe New South Wales Police Association said fines were usually issued only for aggressive swearing in public spaces, such as schools, parks or shopping centres.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Australians are known for their use of fruity language, but those living in Sydney&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[942,3013,1090],"class_list":["post-68530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-australia","tag-police-2","tag-sydney","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}