Two Muslim messengers came with a message from the Sultan for Vlad. They were asked to remove their turbans before meeting the Prince. They refused claiming that it was a symbol of their religion and that their religion forbade to remove it. They also thought that because the Sultan and Vlad were on bad terms anyway it wouldn't matter. When they met Vlad he asked why they had not removed their turbans, they explained why they could not, so Vlad said that if they didn't want to remove their turbans, then they should be nailed to their heads and ordered this to be done.

          Vlad was so confident in his punishment methods that he believed that nobody would try and steal from him. So, he put a golden cup on display in the centre square of Targoviste. Anybody was free to come up and drink from it whenever they wanted, as long as it stayed on the square. The cup was not stolen or damaged for Vlad's entire reign.

          Although Vlad responded violently to insult, he responded well to flattery. A messenger was sent to Vlad by King Mathias of Hungary, and although Vlad did not know what the news was, it angered him. He invited the messenger to eat dinner with him. He then asked the messenger, "Do you know why I have asked for you?" The messenger, seeing two guards standing at the door with gold-headed spears tight in hand, he replied, "I do not know, but I know you are a wise and great ruler, and no matter what you command, even if you were to command my death, it should be done." Vlad motioned the soldiers away, and said, "Had you not answered so well, I would have impaled you on the spot." He then showered the messenger with gifts, and sent him back to Mathias.

          Vlad invited all the beggars in the land to come to his palace for a meal. After the meal, he locked them all in the hall, and set it ablaze, killing them all. He thought that they were eating the people's food, and that they could not repay it.

          A man was wearing pants and a shirt made too short by his wife. Vlad had the man's wife impaled for bad tailoring. He then set the man up with a new spouse.