No, it happened in Scotland where none of these excuses apply, and the guy certainly was doing it as a joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Meechan
I was initially wrong in assuming there would have been only one knucklehead on this planet doing something so obviously stupid.
Sorry for that.
[1]: https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article266388/Angeklagt-Herrc...
[2]: https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.gerichtsurteil-in-...
Sorry for the sources being in German only.