"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."