A Great Legal Step Forward

Well, things might be bad in Germany, demographics-wise, but there is hope on the legal front. Police there are refusing to arrest a man for exercising a fundamental human right. That's right, its completely legal to throw your computer out the window when you get frustrated with it.

Police in the northern city of Hanover said they would not press charges after responding to calls made by residents in an apartment block who were woken by a loud crash in the early hours of Saturday.

Officers found the street and pavement covered in electronic parts and discovered who the culprit was.

Asked what had driven him to the night-time outburst, the 51-year-old man said he had simply got annoyed with his computer.

"Who hasn't felt like doing that?" said a police spokesman.

A landmark legal decision. It is now safe to really hit the "execute" key. In all fairness, they did make him clean up the mess, however. Pedestrians in Germany should now be alert for falling computers, unlike Poland where they have to watch out for the St. Bernards hurtling down.