{"id":326673,"date":"2026-04-30T04:17:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=326673"},"modified":"2026-04-30T04:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:47:53","slug":"french-teenager-facing-jail-after-licking-straw-and-putting-it-back-into-dispenser-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/french-teenager-facing-jail-after-licking-straw-and-putting-it-back-into-dispenser-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"French teenager facing jail after licking straw and putting it back into dispenser | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien has been charged with mischief and public nuisance (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A French teenager is facing two years in prison and 1000’s of dollars in fines after a stunt where he licked a straw and put it back into the vending machine.<\/p>\n

Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien has been charged with mischief and public nuisance after uploading a video of the prank on March 12. <\/p>\n

Captioned: \u2018City just isn’t secure\u2019, the clip quickly went viral and was reported, sparking an investigation.<\/p>\n

The vending machine company, which is understood for providing freshly squeezed orange juice, saw the video and said it had replaced the a whole lot of straws within the machine as a precaution.<\/p>\n

Today, a court allowed him to go away the country for a college trip to the Philippines, but he should be contactable by an investigating officer. <\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Maximilien\u2019s school \u2013 Essec Business School \u2013 said it was aware of the allegations and was investigating.<\/p>\n

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Maximilien will go to court on May 22 again (Picture: Snapchat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Within the meantime, Maximilien\u2019s parents have flown to Singapore ahead of his court case on May 22.<\/p>\n

Similar food-related hygiene stunts have gone viral previously, including one instance where a young girl licked a bath of ice cream and put it back into the shop freezer.<\/p>\n

She was filmed by her unseen boyfriend, who said, \u2018You vile!\u2019 as he watched the stunt unfold.<\/p>\n

Police in Lufkin, Texas, tracked down the girl, but didn\u2019t release her name because she was under 17.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officials previously said the girl could have faced as much as 20 years behind bars if convicted on a felony food tampering charge.<\/p>\n

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Maximilien was filmed licking a straw from the iJOOZ machine (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Food tampering has also been a difficulty within the UK. In 2023, a factory employee was jailed after \u2018maliciously\u2019 contaminating food destined for Nando\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Garry Jones, 38, worked for Harvey & Brockless High-quality Food Company, based in Evesham, Worcestershire, which supplies restaurants across the country.<\/p>\n

He worked as a \u2018picker\u2019 on the late shift and was liable for collecting ingredients for the following day\u2019s cooking \u2013 but he was caught on CCTV contaminating food products.<\/p>\n

He was seen putting rubber gloves, plastic bags, and metal ring pulls in salad dressing and Nando\u2019s hummus.<\/p>\n

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Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien has been charged with mischief and public nuisance (Picture: AFP) A French teenager is facing two years in prison and 1000’s of dollars in fines after a stunt where he licked a straw and put it back into the vending machine. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien has been charged with mischief and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20691],"tags":[51182,14932,728,1579,51181,395,1404,7486,22403,813],"class_list":["post-326673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-dispenser","tag-facing","tag-french","tag-jail","tag-licking","tag-news","tag-putting","tag-straw","tag-teenager","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326676,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326673\/revisions\/326676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}