Swedish Judge Lets Considerate Public Urinator Go Freely

“There is a ruling with legal force where a man was acquitted for the same reason after having peed behind a container. The court of appeal found then, just as we have, that the intent to offend or offensiveness in and of itself, was lacking.”
–Annika Johansson, district court judge in Nacka, Sweden, explains that she threw out the charges against a man arrested in March for illegal public urination because he “went behind a bus shelter to relieve himself, taking care to keep his back toward the sidewalk.”