Matthew Hapgood was arrested for shoplifting, and was sentenced on Friday to 34 months in jail.
During the arrest, Hapgood “broke wind in the officer’s face during the course of that arrest.”
His sentence came more from his 31 previous convictions for 83 offenses and not the gaseous emission, but he’s not the first to get in trouble this way; a man in Austria was fined around $500 for loudly farting near police officers several years ago.
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