Anonymous ID: c7b491 April 26, 2022, 5:26 a.m. No.16155769   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7372187/Tourists-face-six-years-Italian-jail-stealing-40kg-sand-Sardinian-beach.html

A French couple are facing up to six years in prison after attempting to steal more than 40kg of sand from a Sardinian beach, the Mail Online reports.

The pair were caught with bottles of the substance, allegedly plundered from a beach in the south of the island, which they claim they had taken as souvenirs.

Police, who are enforcing a strict set of laws which were brought in two years ago, claim the tourists were planning to load the bottles on to a SUV truck and smuggle them by ferry back to Toulon.

Anonymous ID: c7b491 April 26, 2022, 5:28 a.m. No.16155775   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The problem lies in the type of sand we are using. Desert sand is largely useless to us. The overwhelming bulk of the sand we harvest goes to make concrete, and for that purpose, desert sand grains are the wrong shape. Eroded by wind rather than water, they are too smooth and rounded to lock together to form stable concrete.

Anonymous ID: c7b491 April 26, 2022, 6:06 a.m. No.16155951   🗄️.is 🔗kun

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday as he seeks to find a pause in the fighting in Ukraine.