Czech artist fined for traffic light stunt

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PRAGUE (AFP) — A Czech artist was fined 60,000 koruna (2,400 euros, 3,750 dollars) on Wednesday for replacing the glass in pedestrian crossing traffic lights with stencils of comical and vulgar figures.

David Brudnak, 33, was also ordered to pay an additional 82,000 koruna by the Prague court for the damage done to around 50 traffic lights by his stunt in the capital in April last year.

Pedestrians were confronted, for example, by an illuminated figure dangling from a hangman's noose and a legless man.

Brudnak, along with other artists, was already facing criminal proceedings for inserting images of an atom bomb explosion into a public television weather and tourism broadcast in June last year.

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