Austria: Man Fined for Farting 'With Full Intent' at Police

[douglas9]

BERLIN (AP) — A man in Vienna has been fined $565 for breaking wind loudly in front of police — a move that the Austrian capital’s police force was at pains to defend on Tuesday.

The Oesterreich newspaper reported that the fine stemmed from an incident on June 5 and that the offender was fined for “offending public decency.”

City police wrote on Twitter that “of course no one is reported for accidentally ‘letting one go.'” They added that the man had behaved “provocatively and uncooperatively” during an encounter with officers that preceded the incident.

He got up from a park bench, looked at officers and “let go a massive intestinal wind apparently with full intent,” they said. “And our colleagues don’t like to be farted at so much.”

Police noted that the decision could be appealed.

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https://www.courthousenews.com/austria-man-fined-for-farting-with-full-intent-at-police/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Is that the same as farting in their general direction,

and did he accuse them of having a mother who was a hamster and a father who smelt of elderberries? Or, since this was Austria, "Ich furz in deine allgemeine Richtung. Deine Mutter war ein Hamster und dein Vater roch nach Holunder."

[Major Nikon]

7. The fart of war

[Solly Mack]

2. Fart noises as commentary. So misunderstood.

[Fla Dem]

3. Well here he would have been shot.

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. That stinks.

[Major Nikon]

5. You have a strange scents of humor

[Major Nikon]

6. Truly a man after my own fart

[Lars39]

8. Brats and beer can be lethal

[MiniMe]

9. What is a fart with full intent?

Inquiring minds want to know

[Major Nikon]

10. One that doesn't have a shitty ending

[Stuart G]

11. OH MY!!!!!