Little man pee

Must be something pretty special to look at on this street corner. There's always a crowd, and by some accounts it's the most exciting thing Brussels has to offer.

Fortunately those accounts are wrong. There are indeed lots of more interesting things than a nondescript statue of a small boy urinating, the Manneken Pis.

So why all the interest? Does it record an important historical event, or symbolise something important about the Belgian character? Who knows? According to Wikipedia, there are lots of rival legends about it, so basically nobody knows what it's all about.