A German court has ruled that a man can not be held liable for peeing while standing up. Reportedly the man's landlord was suing him for causing more than $2,000 in damage to his bathroom's marble floor. The landlord blamed the man's poor aim, according to the Associated Press.
A German court has ruled that a tenant who liked to pee standing up doesn't owe his landlord money for damages apparently caused by splashing, or missing his target altogether.
The Duesseldorf administrative court rejected the landlord's claim of 1,900 euros ($2,200) for alleged damage to the bathroom's marble floor, the dpa news agency reported Thursday.
The judge did not take kindly to the implication that men must sit down to pee or face legal damages.
While accepting expert testimony that urine had damaged the marble, Judge Stefan Hank ruled the man's method was within cultural norms, saying that "despite the increasing domestication of men in this context, urinating standing up is still common practice."
