French teen charged in Singapore over a vending machine straw-licking video
An 18-year-old French teen, Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, has been charged in Singapore with mischief and public nuisance for posting a video of himself licking a straw from a vending machine and reinserting it. The incident occurred at a shopping mall on March 12 and quickly went viral, prompting the vending machine operator to sanitize the unit and replace all straws. The teen, who is studying at a French business school in Singapore, was granted permission to travel to Manila for a school trip and is scheduled to return to court on May 29.
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World News French teen charged in Singapore over a vending machine straw-licking video By Associated Press Published April 30, 2026, 3:30 a.m. ET A French teen is facing mischief and public nuisance charges in Singapore after posting a video on social media of himself licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and then putting it back. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 18, was charged April 24 and hasn’t entered a plea, the city-state’s largest English-language newspaper, The Straits Times, said. He allegedly committed the offense at a shopping mall on March 12, and his video spread rapidly when it surfaced, the report said.
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