Police Release Nude Shopper

The 35-year-old female loser of a game of spin-the-bottle walked into a 24-hour convenience store in Cologne at 4 a.m. Nothing unusual there.

But in this case, the woman was clad in an unbuttoned jeans jacket and nothing else.

And although Germans are famously tolerant of nudity, officials said they could have arrested her for disturbing the peace. But they did not.

"We are a tolerant city," police spokesman Berkard Jahn told Reuters. "We decided to let her go home with a verbal warning to dress appropriately next time."

He said that decision was made because few people and presumably no small children saw her at that time of the day.

No word yet on what the clerk doing the graveyard shift thought.