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SINGAPORE \u2013 A teenager\u00a0accused of licking a straw from\u00a0a vending machine<\/span><\/a>\u00a0before putting it back has returned to Singapore after an overseas trip, and his case has been adjourned to June 26.<\/p>\n French national Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 18, had been allowed to leave Singapore for a school-related trip<\/span><\/a> to the Philippines in May.<\/p>\n Defence lawyer Kanthan\u00a0Raghavendra of Kalidass Law Corporation had said in April that the trip was a requirement for him to graduate.<\/p>\n Maximilien, a student at ESSEC Business School located at one-north, was expected to be away from May 2 to 25.<\/p>\n On April 24, he\u00a0was charged with committing mischief<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and being a public nuisance.<\/p>\n He allegedly committed the offences at Goldhill Centre in Thomson Road on or around March 12.<\/p>\n Maximilien allegedly licked a straw from an iJooz machine before putting it back in the straw dispenser. He allegedly filmed himself doing it\u00a0and uploaded the clip on social media.<\/p>\n Court documents stated that iJooz, known for its\u00a0vending\u00a0machines that serve freshly squeezed orange juice, had to replace all 500 straws in the dispenser after the alleged incident.<\/p>\n The video surfaced online on March 12 and went viral, sparking shock and concern among netizens.<\/p>\n For committing mischief, an offender can be jailed for up to two years, fined or both.<\/p>\n The punishment for being a public nuisance is a jail term of up to three months, a fine of up to $2,000 or both.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A teenager\u00a0accused of licking a straw from\u00a0a vending machine\u00a0before putting it back has returned to Singapore after an overseas trip, and his case…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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