Officers find no whiff of intent after woman claims rejected suitor left malodorous memento in her apartment

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Swedish police have dismissed a case in which a woman alleged that a rejected and vindictive suitor intentionally broke wind as he stormed out of her apartment.



The woman, a resident of the Laholm municipality in southern Sweden, told the online edition of daily Hallandsposten that she had invited the man into her home to have sex.

Once inside she had a change of heart and turned him down. But before leaving, she alleged the disgruntled man left her a malodorous memento.

“It smelled awful,” she wrote in her police complaint, asking for a harassment charge to be pressed against the man, which would carry a fine or prison sentence of up to one year.

However, Swedish police decided to drop the case. “It’s impossible to prove that he wanted to pass particularly smelly wind on purpose,” said a spokesman for the local police, Kenneth Persson.