Huh, and I thought Gerard Depardieu was currently in Russia…
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Any other BB’ers born and raised within walking distance of that statue?
In any case, Manneken Pis saved Brussels by peeing on a stick of dynamite that was going to blow up the whole city. He’s the original anti-terrorist. Any attention he gets is good.
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No, but I used to work near there. It’s a tiny little statue, up on a building, and not particularly remarkable. Besides, it’s the only reason we’re even talking about Brussels on this thread. Free publicity!
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Either it was a very small city, or a multikiloton stick of dynamite I’d love to see.
(100 tons of TNT for the Trinity Test, for procedure walkthrough and instrument calibration)
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Right! Well now I associate Brussels with public urination, because that guy up-thread made a fuss about using the image of that statue. Whereas I never would have before! 
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Right. The bureaucrats from there are pissing on us without even having the courtesy of calling it rain.
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Well, the Manneken Pis is known across Europe. At least I know it in Austria.
Perhaps @kmoser feels slightly offended in the way people get when their national/regional landmarks are used out of context?
Mannekin Pis is apparently not well-known globally. I’m sure there are plenty of important American landmarks that mean something else for Americans than they do for people elsewhere… but I don’t think I know any 
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There are a number of stories, none authoritative, but one thing I find interesting is that Flemish/Dutch folk tales often center around a young child saving a city.
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As expressed by @miasm, I like to believe that Portland as a destination made possible the headline that went “passenger charged”, rather than “passenger maimed”.
In some places “charged” could imply the use of a taser.
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