Police in Vienna, Austria, fined a man €500 (about $564) for releasing “a massive intestinal wind in the immediate vicinity of the officers.” Police say the man “had already behaved in a provocative and uncooperative manner” when they approached him as he sat on a park bench and tried to talk to him.
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