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 After a Berlin man farted twice in the presence of a female officer in February last year, he was made to pay a ?900 fine. A Berlin court re-examined the case this week.

The defendant, Christoph S., had reportedly farted twice in the vicinity of a female police officer during an identity check in February 2016 in the Friedrichshain neighbourhood, the Berliner Zeitung reports.

The team leader of the 32nd police unit saw this as a form of insult against his colleague and filed a complaint against the man.

A year later a Berlin court ordered a surprised Christoph S. to pay the draconian ?900 fine.

?It is one thing if the leader of a police unit sees his colleague?s honour as being injured by a fart. But it is quite another if prosecutors and the judiciary agree - that is a failure of the state,? said Christoph S.?s lawyer at the appeal hearing on Tuesday.

The appeals judge agreed with the defendant, throwing the case out within a matter of minutes.

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Madame Tussaud?s Wax Exhibition heads, October 1979

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Moon Globe, by John Russell, London, 1797

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A rare look behind the clock face of the Big Ben, ca. 1920

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The Talisman of Charlemagne is also a reliquary, said to have been found on his body when his burial was opened. Charlemagne's amulet contains a relic of the "True Cross", placed between two sapphires. The amulet was buried with him in 814, but was exhumed about 200 years later by Otto III. Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon, wore it at her coronation in 1804. Later it passed to Napoleon III, and on his death, his widow gave it to the Archbishop of Rheims.

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!LOL... this is perfectly silly

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!LOL... this is perfectly silly

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