The normally stolid Finns are seeing red, or at least yellow, as public drunkenness and urination become rife in Helsinki, their pretty-as-a-picture capital city. Like the rest of Finland, Helsinki is enjoying a run of prosperity, so certain sights and smells are not appreciated, or tolerated. City fathers want to create a special squad of police -- immediately dubbed "pee police" by those joshers in the Finnish press -- to go out and nab the miscreants, with evidence, er, in hand. Many Finns blame the growing nuisance on the relaxation of laws against public drunkenness. You think?
Trickle-Down Effect
The normally stolid Finns are seeing red, or at least yellow, as public drunkenness and urination become rife in Helsinki, their pretty-as-a-picture capital city. Like the rest of Finland, Helsinki is enjoying a run of prosperity, so certain sights and smells are not appreciated, or tolerated. City fathers want to create a special squad of police -- immediately dubbed "pee police" by those joshers in the Finnish press -- to go out and nab the miscreants, with evidence, er, in hand. Many Finns blame the growing nuisance on the relaxation of laws against public drunkenness. You think?
