Do you like to visit Prague? And do you like to chew gum? Then you may be in trouble. Starting this July spitting out an old chewing gum or flicking off your cigarette butt may cost you 1,000 Czech crowns (which with today’s exchange rate means pretty much $1,000). And if you try to make it difficult for the police – like putting that gum back to your mouth claiming that it had accidentally just fallen out – then you may be charged up to 30,000 crowns!! What else is included (or rather excluded) under the new Clean Law?
- animal feeding (bread crumbs for birds…)
- messy car that’s dripping mud
- sandy residue after salting the icy streets during winter
CZ: Navstevujete radi Prahu? A zvykate radi zvykacky? Tak jste mozna v brynde. Zacatkem cervence budete totiz pokutovani 1,000 korun a to nejen za vyplivnutou zvykacku, ale take za odhozenou cigaretu, za krmeni zvirat, nebo za spinave auto, z ktereho se droli bahno. A jestlize budete policii delat “potize” (jako ze napriklad seberete onou odhozenou zvykacku, umistite ji zpatky do pusinky a straznikovi zacnete horoucne tvrdit, ze vam omylem vypadla), muzete byt pokutovani az 30 000 korun!!!
Source:
http://www.lidovky.cz/ln_praha.asp?c=A080529_123936_ln_praha_glu
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Finally (Konec)! It’s about time they had a law like this: I know it’s ironic, but I had lived in Prague for 1.5 years and I ended up telling and scolding, publicly, foreigners who would throw up on the streets, spit, or litter. It is a beautiful city with beautiful people, and I was living here!
Thank you for making your blog bilingual – I’m still trying to learn Czech daily, and seeing the translations side by side helps ALOT! D?kují jste psal v ?esky a anglicky, moc pomoc!
I read your small biography and I was wondering in which city did you have your first Czechs in America meeting with all the grumpy old people?
Finally (Konec)! It’s about time they had a law like this: I know it’s ironic, but I had lived in Prague for 1.5 years and I ended up telling and scolding, publicly, foreigners who would throw up on the streets, spit, or litter. It is a beautiful city with beautiful people, and I was living here!
Thank you for making your blog bilingual – I’m still trying to learn Czech daily, and seeing the translations side by side helps ALOT! D?kují jste psal v ?esky a anglicky, moc pomoc!
I read your small biography and I was wondering in which city did you have your first Czechs in America meeting with all the grumpy old people?
Hi Ernest,
I am glad that someone appreciates the translations!! It is a lot of work, let me tell you…Especially when my Czech is not as “crisp” as it used to 🙂
Thanks for the heads-up…. but I thought the majority of the cobblestones were held in place by tourist gum donations to help preserve the city. At least, that’s what I’ll tell the police. 🙂
Hi John,
that’s pretty funny what you said…and partially probably true as well.
I checked out your blog – it’ pretty cool (I love the pictures)! I bet the Prague cobblestones are not so good for bike racing 😉