A Spaniard is facing a huge fine for lying to police after telling them his two daughters were trapped in a car... when in fact he wanted them to help him open the front door of his house.
Spanish authorities Monday moved to fine FC Barcelona €66,000 ($67,000) and Athletic Bilbao €18,000 over last season's Cup final where fans of the Catalan and Basque sides whistled Spain's King Felipe VI.
A man who pulled out his best superman moves on a motorway in Spain has been fined for not wearing his seatbelt, as has the driver of the car used in the stunt.
A 29-year-old mother of two young children has been told she will have to go to prison for six months after she was late in paying a €1,400 ($1,650) fine related to a crime she committed five years ago.
Eight people were each fined €101 ($130) last Wednesday for playing the Ludo board game late at night in Malaga by police who had received complaints from neighbours about the "noise made by the dice".
Spanish road authorities have reduced the speed margin on cameras without warning drivers in a bid to meet their target of pocketing a staggering €384 million ($496M) in fines by the end of 2014.
Three married Swiss couples who were having sex in a van when their driver was stopped by Ibiza policemen have been fined for not wearing their seatbelts.
Spain could soon see private security guards carrying out police-style duties such as stopping and searching people, demanding identification and carrying out arrests.
Spain has bowed to public pressure by downscaling proposed tough new security laws which would have seen unauthorized protests outside the country's parliament hit with fines of up to €600,000 ($814,000).
Unauthorized protesters outside the Spanish Parliament could soon be hit with fines of up to €600,000 ($810,000) while those selling drugs or offering sexual services in front of minors could face a penalty of up to €30,000.
Spaniards are in their usual rush to take their summer holidays as official sources estimate 2.7 million vehicles will hit the road in the first 24 hours of August’s “operation exodus”.
A Barcelona policeman has been locked up for 18 months prison and slapped with a €400 penalty after he fined four tow trucks in "retaliation" after his own parked car was towed away.
A case of mistaken identity has seen the King Juan Carlos's eldest daughter Elena wrongly fined for a traffic infraction involving a tractor in the north-central Spanish city of Valladolid.
