Quirky World: Toilet-splashing tenant will get his deposit back

GERMANY: A court has ruled that a tenant who likes to pee standing up does not owe his landlord money for damages caused by splashing or missing his target altogether.

The Duesseldorf administrative court rejected the landlord’s claim of €1,900 for alleged damage to the bathroom’s marble floor, the DPA news agency reported.

While accepting expert evidence 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”.