TOURIST FINED FOR STEALING SARDINIA BEACH SAND

A French tourist has been ordered to pay a €1,000 ($1,200) fine after attempting to fly out of Sardinia with more than four pounds of local sand in his luggage. The Italian island’s white sand is protected, and tourists face fines and even jail time for removing it from local beaches. The unnamed man was apprehended at Cagliari Elmas Airport last Tuesday after he was found in possession of a bottle containing 4 pounds of sand. In 2017, a regional law was introduced that made it illegal to take the unique pink or very white sand from local beaches. Sardinia’s Forest Rangers (* Not Beach Rangers?) say that, at the end of the year, they usually have “many bottles of sand accumulated.”
* Son of a beach.
* If he had been smart he would have stuck the sand inside a cremation urn and claimed it was grandma.
* You have to admit – he had grit.
* That reminds me of a joke: What do you call a waffle buried in sand? San Diego.