“Blowing off is a biological process.
“I didn’t do it on purpose,’’ he told Austrian broadcaster ORF.
As student and jobber, it would take him months to come up with the money, he said.
The Vienna Police department defended the fart fine in a burst of tweets.
While the Police do not fine accidental flatulence, the young man “slightly rose from a park bench, looked the officers in the eye and released massive bowel gas in their immediate vicinity, apparently on purpose,’’ the department wrote. (dpa/NAN)