A French tourist has been ordered to pay a €1,000 ($1,200) fine.
This is after attempting to fly out of Sardinia with more than four pounds of local sand in his luggage.
The Italian island’s idyllic white sand is protected, according to reports at CNN.
Tourists face fines and even jail time for removing it from local beaches.
At the end of the year, the airport usually has many bottles of sand accumulated from travelers.
The regulations were introduced because the incidents were causing damage to the beaches.
