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Brickbats

Brickbat: Such Teeth, Dear

Charles Oliver | 10.20.2017 4:00 AM

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A man dressed as a shark to promote the new McShark electronics store in Vienna was fined under Austria's new anti-burqa law. The man received a $176 fine when he refused to remove his shark head for having his face covered in public.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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