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What Are You Looking At?

Charles Oliver | 12.16.2013 6:00 AM


A man in Barcelona, Spain, claims police fined him 90 euros for looking at a discarded painting. Public defender Maria Assumpció Vilàs says cops charged him with rummaging through trash but the painting had actually been left next to a bin.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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