Thursday, March 13

Lithuanian PM lights up, coughs up fine

Lithuania's Prime Minister, Gediminas Kirkilas, forgot to not smoke in a bar in the port town of KlaipÄ—da, and earned the bar a 1,000LT (€290) fine. He claims that he "simply forgot" that smoking was banned in bars, restaurants, cafes, etc Lithuania. He has offered to pay the fine on behalf of the bar. (In Lithuania, venue owners, not patrons, are fined for breaches of the smoking ban.)

We hope he doesn't wake up one day and forgot to run the country.