Singapore - Giving in to a natural urge in public proved costly for a Singapore taxi driver. The cabby was fined the maximum 1,000 Singapore dollars (655 US dollars) Wednesday for urinating on a road in June, a news report said.

The driver had alighted his taxi and urinated behind an electrical box, the online edition of the Straits Times newspaper said. He ignored shouts by another car driver and his companions to stop.

Eventually, the other driver took down the registration number of his taxi and reported it to authorities. (dpa)