It has been reported across the broadsheets, that a Dusseldorf Administrative Court's judge threw out a landlord's claim against his tenant, for damaging the bathroom's marble floor because of "missing" the toilet.

The court ruled that men are allowed to urinate whilst standing in front of the toilet and the judge explained further on his decision with this priceless quote : "Despite the growing domestication of men, urinating while standing up is still common practice".

The landlord wanted his tenant to pay damages of 1,900 Euros as he strongly argued that the tenant's "motions" had stained the marble floor.

A man who prefers the standing method of ablutions, will not have to pay his landlord money for damage caused by splashing or missing the target, the court ruled in the tenant's favour.

Even though evidence of the damage was shown to the judge and he accepted that it had, the judge explained that men's' method of standing up is culturally acceptable.

Judge Stephan Hank said:  "Despite the increasing domestication of men in this context, urinating standing up is still common practice," a news agency reported.

The judge also said that it was more than likely that the tenant would expected to have "regular conflicts" with the other tenants about standing up, however he would not have been able to have foreseen the marble floor being stained.