mo4ch:>Price of liberty: ‘Sober’ US soldiers fined $400 for urinating on Freedom Monument in Latvia | Mo4ch News

Some US troops who come to Latvia for drills don’t seem to have too much respect for their hosts, as two of them were caught peeing on the landmark Freedom Monument in Riga. They were stone-cold sober while doing so.The surveillance center of the Riga Municipal Police noticed two men urinating on the Freedom Monument in the center on the city on March 8. Patrolling officers were immediately sent on site and detained the perpetrators.When their papers were checked it turned out that those responsible for the bizarre act were American troops, who arrived in the country for wargames. Latvia had been hosting NATO’s Dynamic Front exercises between March 2 and 9. Their motivation for using a 42-meter-tall monument as a toilet is yet unclear. But Riga police spokesman, Toms Sadovskis , told LETA news agency that the US servicemen were sober during the act.However, the wrongdoers didn’t escape punishment as each of them was slapped with a fine of a whole €400 (around $454) before being let go…