Police have torn up a €140 fine issued after a two-year-old from Brabant had a wee against a wall.

Hennie van der Elst, from Uden, had let his grandson Mattias go to the toilet against the side of a bakery in the town as they waited for his wife to emerge from the supermarket.

The child, who had been toilet trained for just several months, had been going three times an hour, grandmother Harriet told the Gelderlander.

‘He had just visited the WC at home,’ she reportedly said. ‘But, well, he had to go again. What should you do? Let him wet his pants?’

Hennie kan niet geloven dat de boete van 140 euro is kwijtgescholden. Zijn kleinzoon (2) moest plassen en opa kreeg boete. pic.twitter.com/7vmwo1zwMO

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The unfortunate incident was noticed by a passing policeman, who issued the grandparents with a fine for peeing in public – or ‘wild weeing’, as the Dutch describe it.

After the issue exploded on Facebook yesterday, the local police service decided to withdraw the fine, saying there was ‘no legal option to make a grandfather liable for his grandson peeing in public.’

Chief of police at Maas and Leijgraaf Eric Heuvelmans, told the Gelderlander that they would discuss whether the policeman had taken the right approach. ‘I will talk with my colleagues and the family about this as soon as possible,’ he reportedly said. ‘It is very annoying that it has happened and I understand the emotions of those involved.’

An employee at the bakery Van de Ven apparently added to the paper: ‘If they had just asked, the little boy could have gone to the toilet here.’

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