Roman Týc sentenced to one month in prison

The artist known as Roman Týc has been sentenced to one month in prison for failing to pay a fine imposed for one of his stunts. The best known of the Ztohoven guerrilla art collective, Týc was fined 60,000 crowns in 2007 for replacing the red and green figures on dozens of pedestrian crossings with various ridiculous images – legless or hanged men for example. The judge admitted that the public had appreciated the act, but said the city had incurred damages of 82.000 crowns. The artist publically refused to pay the fine, explaining that he had set the figures on signal lights free. Ztohoven and Týč have been on court on numerous occasions before, most notably after hacking into a live weather programme on Czech Television and broadcasting an atomic explosion.