{"id":2438,"date":"2016-11-06T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2016-11-06T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:55:12","slug":"teen-feeds-pigeon-gets-court-summons-for-littering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/06\/teen-feeds-pigeon-gets-court-summons-for-littering\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Feeds Pigeon &#8211; Gets Court Summons for Littering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren-Paige Smith, 19, was tucking into lunch when she gave a\u00a0bird a chip, which it immediately swallowed, moments later, she was approached by a man she thinks was a council worker &#8211; and slapped with a \u00a325 fine for littering. \u00a0 The teen refused to pay the sum and carried on with her life after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>She then received a letter in the post summoning her to court. \u00a0The fine had been escalated to \u00a3100 and she is expected at Swansea Magistrates&#8217; Court on November 15.<\/p>\n<p>Her grandfather said: &#8220;It&#8217;s madness. Lauren has never been in trouble in her life and they&#8217;re summoning her to court for feeding some birds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Smith said: \u00a0&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m being penalised for doing a kind act. \u00a0I thought it was a wind up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Lauren-Paige Smith, 19, was tucking into lunch when she gave a\u00a0bird a chip, which it immediately swallowed, moments later, she was approached by a man she thinks was a council worker &#8211; and slapped with <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/06\/teen-feeds-pigeon-gets-court-summons-for-littering\/\" title=\"Teen Feeds Pigeon &#8211; Gets Court Summons for Littering\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[1557,1560,1555,1558,1556,1559],"class_list":{"0":"post-2438","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-uk","9":"tag-chip","10":"tag-fine","11":"tag-lauren-paige-smith","12":"tag-littering","13":"tag-pigeon","14":"tag-summons","15":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}