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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,915 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:16 AM Mar 2020

Judge jails 71-year-old man for urinating in a bush

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For God’s sake. This is utterly unacceptable.



A judge in Northampton County, which just had the first COVID-19 death in the state, set cash bail & incarcerated a 71-year-old man who was accused of peeing in a bush.
Continued reliance on cash bail for petty crimes is going to exacerbate the pandemic


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Judge jails 71-year-old man for urinating in a bush (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2020 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author democratisphere Mar 2020 #1
Jail time's too harsh-- BusyBeingBest Mar 2020 #2
Why not plant nykym Mar 2020 #4
Ha, that would be good except I'm sure at some point it would spread to my BusyBeingBest Mar 2020 #6
I have a similar feeling about people who let their dogs use... 3catwoman3 Mar 2020 #8
That drives me bonkers as well. I used to have BusyBeingBest Mar 2020 #9
In my home town the Cops tazed a man in his doc03 Mar 2020 #3
Maybe it was a burning bush Kaiserguy Mar 2020 #11
If you let the pissing slide, next thing... VarryOn Mar 2020 #5
Bullroar. $25.00 fine at best. 3Hotdogs Mar 2020 #12
Dogs everywhere are suddenly nervous. CaptYossarian Mar 2020 #7
The headline is subject to misinterpretation. Sneederbunk Mar 2020 #10

Response to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

BusyBeingBest

(8,407 posts)
2. Jail time's too harsh--
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:25 AM
Mar 2020

HOWEVER. I have a problem with men coming down my semi-rural gravel road, stopping their vehicles, getting out and taking a leak near a lone pine tree, and then they get back in their cars and do a u-turn and head out toward the main road. They're deliberately swinging by my house to use the road as a toilet--this isn't a sudden prostate emergency. I go outside and glare at them but it doesn't deter them. Has happened at least 6 or 7 times that I've been around to notice. Absolutely disgusting.

BusyBeingBest

(8,407 posts)
6. Ha, that would be good except I'm sure at some point it would spread to my
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:52 AM
Mar 2020

yard and I'm super-susceptible to it. It wouldn't stop the ditch-pissing either. I really hate these people. I want to get in my car and follow them back to their houses with buckets of my piss and dump it in the street in front of their houses and see how they like it.

3catwoman3

(25,430 posts)
8. I have a similar feeling about people who let their dogs use...
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 10:21 AM
Mar 2020

...my yard, especially if I am standing outside watching them in the act.

We have 3 cats. I don’t dump my cat boxes in other people’s yards.

I confess to being tempted to do so with our next door neighbors. The have a huge German shepherd, who leaves huge deposits. My husband has spoken to the owner about this many times. The guy’s solution - we should get some of those little plastic flags on wires, like the ones utility companies use to mark where their lines are, and put them in the piles of poop so he know where to come and clean up

Oh, hell no. It’s your damn dog. You come and do the looking.

BusyBeingBest

(8,407 posts)
9. That drives me bonkers as well. I used to have
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 10:29 AM
Mar 2020

a couple in my neighborhood that would walk their dogs by my house to crap at the edge of the yard. I think they thought since it was close to the road that it didn't "count". Fortunately I think they've moved before I had to confront them, OR they changed their walking route. My parents also have this trouble where they live and now watch for the dog walkers and go outside to deter them. I have my own dogs and cats and they do their business at my house, and no one else's. I also don't squat and pee wherever I feel the urge. What is wrong with some people?

doc03

(36,694 posts)
3. In my home town the Cops tazed a man in his
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:26 AM
Mar 2020

80s for urinating behind a bush. Two cops claimed that he got belligerent and they had to taz him to get him under control.

 

VarryOn

(2,343 posts)
5. If you let the pissing slide, next thing...
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 09:38 AM
Mar 2020

you'll have other, more objectioinal waste eliminations to deal with. Good on this judge for treating this harshly.

Lenience has little place in these extraordinary times.

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