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Golden shower hits Sweden

Peace dividend
By Andrew Thomas
Mon Aug 06 2007, 17:13
ALFRESCO MICTURATION is generating shedloads of cash for the Swedish Government, reports The Local . Fines imposed on those who simply can't wait until they get home have raised $264,000 so far this year.

Fines for peeing in public were almost doubled last October, but this does not appear to have put a dampener on the practice as 2,252 people have already been fined for promiscuous pissing in the first seven months of the year compared with last year's total of 3,328.

A spokesman for the Swedish Association of Woodland Bears claimed that his members were 'very concerned' over Government plans to extend the legislation. µ

L'Inq
The Local

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