{"id":259820,"date":"2017-10-23T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=259820"},"modified":"2020-12-18T15:40:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T20:40:40","slug":"canadian-man-fined-for-loudly-singing-everybody-dance-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/canadian-man-fined-for-loudly-singing-everybody-dance-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian man fined for loudly singing Everybody Dance Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
The morning laugh\u2026 all Canadians should start singing loudly in their car in front of police as a protest against this abuse of power.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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A Canadian man is contesting a C$149 ($118; \u00a390) ticket for “screaming in a public place” after being caught singing in his car.<\/p>\n

The tune that got him grooving – and in trouble – was C+C Music Factory’s 90s smash hit Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now).<\/p>\n

Taoufik Moalla, 38, was driving near his suburban Montreal home on 27 September when police pulled him over.<\/p>\n

Police asked him for identification and whether he had been screaming.<\/p>\n

“I said, ‘No, I was singing,'” Mr Moalla\u00a0told the Montreal Gazette. “I was singing the refrain ‘Everybody Dance Now,’ but it wasn’t loud enough to disturb anyone.”<\/p>\n

The Montreal man had been on his way to the grocery store to buy a bottle of water when the 90s dance track started playing in his CD player.<\/p>\n

Police checked the inside of his car along with his licence and registration. They handed back his documents along with the fine.<\/p>\n

Mr Moalla\u00a0told CTV News\u00a0that he was shocked by the ticket. He did not think his singing merited a fine.<\/p>\n

“I understand if they are doing their job, they are allowed to check if everything’s okay, if I kidnapped someone or if there’s danger inside, but I would never expect they would give me a ticket for that,” he told CTV.<\/p>\n

Montreal police said they do not comment on individual tickets handed out to the public.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-41726495<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The morning laugh\u2026 all Canadians should start singing loudly in their car in front of police as a protest against this abuse of power.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":287441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/ro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}