A 28-year-old policeman has been fined 7,200 euros ($9,600) for demanding the driver of an illegally parked car give the police a case of beer instead of paying a fine, Austrian radio reported on Wednesday.
In April 2010, when the young cop was patrolling for incorrectly parked cars, he found one with a police crest on its rear window.
According to the officer, he decided the owner of the car must work with the police and decided to make a joke out of the parking violation. Instead of filling out a parking ticket, he fixed a note to the car's windscreen saying that "such a violation will cost you a box of beer."
The driver took the note a bit too literally and appeared at the police station the next day with a case of beer.
The young policeman was not in the station at the time and his colleagues did not see the funny side of his joke, starting an investigation that landed the officer in court.
VIENNA, September 22 (RIA Novosti)
