OK here I am from Brussels!

LEJ's is the closest to the real legend and the Manneken Pis is indeed taken as a symbol of Belgium's "cocky" independence from greater powers.

By the way they put him on the beer bottles sold in the USA because we know that's the type of beer you guys like to drink....right?

Ohio beer sold in Belgium similarly has a label depicting Catspaw blowing up a possum's a***

mcmoo