Rules force man to urinate in bottle during exam

Yahoo! News: German rules force man to urinate in bottle in exam


Sometimes I really do believe the Germans are raised to apply no common sense to "rules".

somehow this does not surprise me! oh how horrible. i hoped he passed his exam.

yes...rather distracting when the bladder is a calling! Right now pregnant I could not sit through an exam without a potty break.

on the other hand at my uni there was a student that when told he could bring anything he could carry into a math exam took it literally and brought a mathmatician in on his back. The prof let him get away with it because of the rules.

Carry on your back - Urban Legend

I am glad no one is that strict at my university. I usually try to avoid having to go to the bathroom during the exam. One exam I took, the prof checked the restrooms before the exam and she found a note taped to the bottom of a trashcan lid. It was for another exam, so she left it there. Haha...

I remember when I took a French exam in high school (must've been 8 years ago or something), the teacher wrote on my exam the exact time I was at the restroom for.

And when I took my graduating exams (Abitur) we were only allowed to use one specified restroom and a teacher was waiting outside for us to go back into the classroom.

Fun times...

My ex-boyfriend sat for his final Bar exam here at LMU about 5 years ago and had been in the hospital for a more then 2 weeks proir recovering from surgery. He was released 2 days before the exam started, which is more then 10 days of exams, was on crutches and pain meds. The school told him he had to have someone carry his books and attend the exam because unless he was dead or in a coma they can't reschedule on the final! He sat for it and retested 6 months later cause he didn't like his results! What a drag!

I find this kind of thing incredible. People here often seem to stick so rigidly to whatever they've been instructed to do that they fail to show any initiative whatsoever. It's almost robotic really - no grasp at all of adhering to the spirit rather than the letter of the law. Frightening.

I don't think it's just here, or at least the trend is spreading. Just think about the rigid application of security screening rules at airports. That probably began in the U.S. (or maybe Israel) and is spreading worldwide.

Common sense is an endangered species.

Lucky it wasn't me. I have to make the nurse leave the room just to piss in a bottle if I'm in hospital. There's no way i could piss in front of a whole exam hall.

The poor lad may have bladder damage, but at least he's not sufferring from a shy bladder.

I would have pissed all over the exam officials. That would serve them right the bastards

I wrote my chem final 2 days after shattering my wrist, I called the day before the exam asking if I could bring a pillow in to the exam for my arm, and that I had been taking pain meds that made me drowsy, the best way to combat that was drink Jolt cola, but I had to pee all the time then, they got me a seat close to the door and I was always accompanied to the toilet.
That seems pretty restrictive on the part of the Uni, I do understand with cell phones, bluetooths and such its alot easier to cheat, but heck, he has a serious medical condition.

Don't remember you having a broken arm in the Jazz Cantina but maybe the condition carried over

@Carm:I thought that women always go to the toilet in groups anyway!

well, you know, all that alcohol you poured down my throat.


actually it was a women that accompanied me

Good thing we are not in Oklahoma, where urinating in public is a sex offense. USA Today has an article on sex offenders and in the article Oklahoma state Rep. Lucky Lamons who was a police officer for 22 years recalls arresting men for urinating in public.

gemini, Tiggi et al.:
In Germany, this crap starts at law school and ends in the public service (I won't even bother to mention the justifications that were heard at the Nuremberg trials). All I know is that the law is not always right orjust and is sometimes an ass. Moreover, I cross the road when the little man is neither green nor red, but when there's no traffic. We are intelligent, thinking human beings, not Pavlov's dogs (except those morons who can't think for themselves).
To demand anything else of us is an insult to human intelligence.

PS: Did you know that the main purpose of law schools in Germany is to train recruits not for the legal profession but for the public service? To my mind, that explains one hell of a lot about this "I was only obeying orders" and insane adherence to the letter of the law mentality here.

Tis an urban myth... comes around every two or three years again. You can leave the exam for the restrooms anytime and even as often as you feel like - without any kind of bag, material, jacket, what so ever of course and someone is accompanying you up to the front of the facilities in question...

They sometimes get quite ridiculous though. The night before an exam I had an emergency appendix surgery, and the simple certificate of the hospital, that I actually was lying there, sedated, with people cutting something out of me and afterwards spending a week in there, since I wasn't just having some headache, just wasn't good enough. No they actually wrote my a nice letter, telling me I missed the exam due to my absence. The "Chefarzt" of the ER had to put in a written statement, why they had to perform the surgery, that it was indeed me they performed that surgery on and also, even that they might have been performing surgery on me during the first day of the exam, that I wasn't able to take part in the second day, which would have been the day after the first.