OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An Illinois man who used indoor potted plants as a toilet was sent to jail in Nebraska — for five days.

The Omaha Police Department says officers responded to a report of a 32-year-old man pulling down his pants earlier this week to defecate on a potted plant in the waiting room area of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in Omaha. A building supervisor says he then urinated on another plant.

The man pleaded guilty to indecent exposure and received a five-day jail sentence Tuesday in lieu of paying a fine.

Police say the man explained his actions by saying, “Sometimes you have to let the bear outside the woods.”

A police report says the man has no ties to the community.