Juan Luis Guerra sang, wishing it would rain coffee in the countryside. The rain in Salamanca, surprisingly and causing great inconvenience to a pedestrian passing through the city center at dawn, was something else: tortillas and ham. It sounds crazy, I know; but this was the strange rainfall in the form of potatoes, eggs and sausages that fell on a passerby in the city a few weeks ago.

The joke can be quite expensive for the author of such a culinary-meteorological miracle. He will face a fine of 750 euros for littering.

The omelette is on its way! It happened in Salamanca. Early one morning from Saturday to Sunday in March. A pedestrian was walking on Peña Primera Street in the heart of the city of Charra when half a potato omelette and five slices of ham fell on him as if it had fallen from the sky. The strange bullet stained his clothes. And – it’s not hard to believe – this angered him so much that he eventually warned some Local Police officers who were approaching the area due to noise complaints.

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high jump. They might seem like they fell from the sky, but tortillas and ham had a much more specific origin… and they were located close to the sidewalk: the “flying menu” came from the fifth floor of a building on Peña Primera. The police then took photographs of the evidence of the crime (aka the tortilla, or what was left after falling several feet) and searched the apartment in question. There they met the owner of the apartment and another person who admitted to being a food thrower.

an expensive joke. What the newspaper reported about the case until then Salamanca Today, who was the first to report the incident. Although the time and day of the week provide some clues, nothing is known about why or for what purpose the half-potato omelet was thrown from the fifth-floor window. What we do know is that the joke can cost its author dearly. More precisely, it is very expensive.

The Castilian-Leonian newspaper notes that Salamanca’s regulations prohibit the throwing of waste or any objects in general onto the street. This is achieved by both throwing the garbage out of the container and from a height of meters.

Launch 750 euros. To be more precise, Salamanca Today He points out that what happened at dawn in Salamanca a few weeks ago violated article 11 of the municipality’s urban sanitation and waste management regulations; This regulation, among other things, regulates penalties for disposing of small amounts of waste. In this case, throwing half of the tortilla and a few slices out the window will cause you to face a fine of up to 750 euros.

beyond Salamanca. The Salamanca regulations are not unique, of course. In Madrid, for example, Article 9 of the Public Space Cleaning Regulation expressly prohibits “the disposal of any waste into public spaces from vehicles, doors, portals, windows, balconies or terraces.”

The same regulation explains that, in general, there are three types of violations, depending on their severity, which can lead to fines ranging from a maximum of 750 euros (minor ones) or from 1,501 to 3,000 euros. serious ones.

Adding and continuing events. The tortilla and slices section may be intriguing, but it adds to the list of strange events that the local press has been collecting in Salamanca over the past few weeks. A few days ago Salamanca Today He described the case of a young man who was fined for throwing dozens of eggs into the street and another man who was caught carrying bags of sand from a local park.

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