Outside court at an earlier appearance in Auckland, the man said he had a prostate condition which caused urinary problems making it hard to control sudden outbursts of urine. He said for this reason he removed some of his clothes to stop urine spraying onto his shirt and pants. Judge Maree MacKenzie, after hearing that there were no objections from police and that witnesses to the Taupō incident were from Otaki and Levin, which, Farquhar said, meant it would probably be just as easy for them to fly to Auckland as Taupō, granted the application for the charges to be heard jointly.