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Is it true that you cannot swear in public in Poland?


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RonWestThreads: 3
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Joined: Jan 6, 10 ♂ 		 Feb 8, 10, 06:20    #1
http://www.masterpage.com.pl/outlook/201002/swearing-in-poland.html

Anyone here ever been fined?
beckskiThreads: 19
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Joined: May 15, 07  Pictures: 3  Gold Member MEMBER ♀ 		 Feb 8, 10, 06:38    #2
RonWest:
Is it true that you cannot swear in public in Poland?

If that's true, I'll be dead meat when I visit Poland. I will most likely end up in bankruptcy, from all the fines, ha!

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z_dariusThreads: 22
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Joined: Oct 18, 07 ♂ 		 Feb 8, 10, 06:41    #3
beckski:
If that's true, I'll be dead meat when I visit Poland.

Also avoid Michigan, Oklahoma, NC, Rhode Island and a couple other States.
learn polishThreads: 2
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Joined: Oct 15, 09 ♀ 		 Feb 8, 10, 10:51    #4
AFAIK, there is some rule that says swearing in public places may cost you up to 50 PLN (somebody correct me if i'm wrong) - in practice it would be pretty much impossible to execute it. If you stand in front of a cop yelling out obscenities, you'll get a fine, that's for sure. Other than that, don't worry, you'd have to have real bad luck to get fined for swearing :)
jonniThreads: 26
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Feb 8, 10, 14:21    #5
The fine is exactly 50zl, for 'using vulgarisms in public'. It is a civil 'crime' so the fine can't be enforced except by a civil action which takes ages.
wildroverThreads: 180
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Joined: Jun 7, 07 ♂ 		 Feb 8, 10, 14:22    #6
i always try to swear in English...
SeanusThreads: 22
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Feb 8, 10, 18:43    #7
That's not true at all although I hear the K word less and less. You can swear and it just depends who is the judge of can and can't.
miraThreads: -
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Joined: Jan 28, 09 ♀ 		 Feb 8, 10, 19:04    #8
It can't be true, the whole story is made up, I reckon.
Besides, I can bet no Polish person would pay that much for such a silly "crime". You get 100 zł fine when crossing the street on red light, but 500 zl for swearing? Give me a break.
jonniThreads: 26
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Joined: Nov 27, 07 ♂ 		 Feb 8, 10, 19:21    #9
mira:
but 500 zl for swearing?

It's 50zl. My friend was fined in Toruń a couple of years ago. He never paid and hasn't heard anything.


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