VERY EXPENSIVE T-SHIRT

They say the truth hurts!

SPANISH WOMAN FINED 1,000 EUROS FOR WEARING T-SHIRT SAYING ‘MY EX-HUSBAND IS AN ASSHOLE’
Ironically the t-shirt was a present to the woman by her new-found love

By Paul Milligan

Mail Online
February 23, 2012

A divorcée in Spain has been ordered to pay €1,000 damages to her ex-husband after she posted photos on Facebook wearing a t-shirt with a rude message about him.

The 40-year-old woman posted the image back in 2010. In December that year, her former husband saw the offending images and filed for damages.

The couple divorced in 2005, reports the Register website.

A court in Madrid sided with the ex-husband and agreed that the phrase 'Mi exmarido es gilipollas' which roughly translates as 'my ex-husband is an asshole' was an attack on the victim's dignity and damaged his reputation.

He ordered the woman to pay her ex €2,000, and a €240 fine.

These were reduced on appeal to €1,000 damages and eight days' house arrest in lieu of the fine.

To make matters worse, the woman had to ask the judge to pay the damages in installments as she doesn’t earn enough money to pay the fine in one go.

Telling the judge she only earned €700 a month, she responded to the verdict by saying: ‘I started crying because I couldn't believe it. I don't understand how the complaint could have ended in court. It's only a t-shirt.’

Apparently, this now very expensive t-shirt, was bought by the woman's current partner as a joke present for her on holiday in 2009.