$2,500 fine for peeing in public

[JJVP]

:A three-year-old from Oklahoma didn't want to pee his pants when he had to go, so he dropped them and urinated in his front yard. That's when a police officer in his town drove up and handed his mother a ticket for $2,500.

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[Oldgringo]

Must be a low crime area, eh?

[Keith B]

Think that's should be $2,500. Still stupid.

[JJVP]

Think that's should be $2,500. Still stupid.

Oops. One too many zeros. Fixed.

[E.Marquez]

Post removed as it was not specifically discussing a child and his peeing on a tree.

[gigag04]

Weird - you can't commit a crime in Texas until you're 10

[talltex]

Think that's should be $2,500. Still stupid.

And "stupid" is putting it mildly...this falls into the "they walk among us" category. WHAT has happened to common sense? Now, "the charge has been ammended to "contributing to the delinquency of a minor "and the police Chief says he would be OK with it if the DA threw it out"... as though that solves the problem. At the very least, the Chief should have required the officer to publicy apologize to the mother and the community at large, while tearing the citation into tiny pieces.

[Ericstac]

I almost went to jail for peeing in public...in a Mexico border town...

[E.Marquez]

Topic related post removed.

I apologize for posting related, yet off focus content.

[Keith B]

OK, let's not let this thread drift off of the original issue of the child, not adults and their escapades.

[E.Marquez]

OK, let's not let this thread drift off of the original issue of the child, not adults and their escapades.

Right..

The 3 year old child was being a child on his family's property, 2.5 acres where they have lived for years..

The LEO, had a legal position to write the citation, and a morel, ethical, common sense one to not.

And the report I read said the Police chief dropped the charges.

“Yesterday the police chief [Piedmont Police Chief Alex Oblein] stopped by and apologized and said that they were dropping the charges,” Warden said today. “We told him we appreciated him coming and for all his help. He didn't have to come by the house. That was nice of him to do that.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2 ... n-apology/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Thus ends another case of silliness in law enforcement followed by commonsense correction by leadership in that same department. Kind of a lose / Win deal in my book.

[Ericstac]

I would like to know why pee is worth a $2,500 fine. Is it a haz mat?

[talltex]

OK, let's not let this thread drift off of the original issue of the child, not adults and their escapades.

Right..

The 3 year old child was being a child on his family's property, 2.5 acres where they have lived for years..

The LEO, had a legal position to write the citation, and a morel, ethical, common sense one to not.

And the report I read said the Police chief dropped the charges.

“Yesterday the police chief [Piedmont Police Chief Alex Oblein] stopped by and apologized and said that they were dropping the charges,” Warden said today. “We told him we appreciated him coming and for all his help. He didn't have to come by the house. That was nice of him to do that.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2 ... n-apology/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Thus ends another case of silliness in law enforcement followed by commonsense correction by leadership in that same department. Kind of a lose / Win deal in my book.

thx for that followup report...Kudo's to the Chief...good to see that common sense won out!

[Keith B]

In a related type of incident, my wife's oldest nephew (now 28) was about that age when his Grandma (my MIL) caught him using the wood pile in the back yard of their house in town as his bathroom. She told him 'We have a bathroom inside, you don't do that'. He said, 'When we are at the farm in the shop, Paw Paw Jerry (other side of family)tells us to to go outside and use the wood pile!' So, he was just doing what he had always done at that age. I am sure that is the same for this little boy.

It was a stupid thing for the officer to write a ticket and glad the Cheif took care of the issue.

[Jaguar]

My mother once told my then about 3 year old son to go pee in the yard. He kind of questioned her and she said, just do it where people can't see you. Well, the only people he thought of was us, sitting on the patio, so he goes to the chain-link fence next to the road to make sure "no one sees". The giant hedge row didn't even cross his mind.

Thankfully no cops passed by.