Sounds like Mardi Gras in New Orleans. I’ve seen as many as 30 men pissing through the fence on the back lawn of St. Louis’s Cathedral due to the lack of public restrooms while cops ride by on horseback. (I swear that if you rented a shop in the Quarter, filled it with nothing but bathrooms that you charge the public $1 per person to use and are only open during Mardi Gras, you would make enough money to pay for the rent the rest of the year.)
Outside? At night? With no one around? Meh. I don’t see why it matters.
Just chiming in to say that I agree wholeheartedly with the OP. I’ve pissed outside thousands of times, with no malice toward wayward women or stray rugrats.
So, er, are you still oddly proud of being Southern?
Talking to me? I read that thread, smart guy.
I’m still wondering if its illegal for a child to do so.
Samprio and Jaade are both mistaken. If you actually read OCGA 42-1-12, you will see that registration is not required for ANY sexual offens, just offenses that involve minors. So pissing on the wall wouldn’t be a registration offense, unless he intentionally did it in fromt of a minor, and even then I think it would be questionable.
Besides giving specific acts, the code section sums it up nicely: 42-1-12 (a)(4)(A)(vii): Any conviction resulting from an underlying sexual offense against a victim who is a monor. 42-1-12 (a)(4)(B)(xi): Any conduct, which, by its cery nature, is a sexual offense against a minor. That portion of the code section was enacted to prevent defendants from getting out of having to register by pleading to a lesser offense.
For example, the crime of "Child Molestation" is, by definition, a sexual crime against a child. An essential element of the crime is that the victim has to be under 16. Sexual battery, however, is an unwanted touching of the intimate body parts of another. No age limit. Sometimes, the State will plead a CM case down to a sexual battery, but if the victim is under 16, the person still has to register.
Also, you don't have to be sentenced to prison to have to register. 42-1-12 (a)(1)(A) specifically says that you have to register if you are "sentenced to probatoi without any sentence of incarceration in the state prison system".
The statute was amended in 2001 to include defendants who enter pelas under the First Offender Act- they were previously excluded from having to register, but now they are required to.
So, the short version of this is that your friend should not have to register.Forgot to add that the registration statue also includes “sexually violent” offenses, and I still don’t think that peeing on a wall would count.
“College Children???”
Wouldn’t that depend on, say, volume and force?
Actually, since you mention it, when I was growing up (Weokahatchee, AL- population 15 at its zenith in the 1920s and population today 1) most of my relatives (who lived in the old tin-roofed dogtrot homeplace on our farm) didn’t have indoor plumbing (by choice, no less- “You just shouldn’t do such as that in the same house where ya cook”), so it was nothing for me to see my 70-something through 90-something aunts spread their legs (their skirts still down to their ankles [except for Aunt Lucy who was barking mad and something of an exhibitionist] and let fly when they had to pee (though they were all ladylike enough to go into the woods when they had to do anything more substantive.
My mother (the former lady wrestler) was actually considered spoiled and coddled because she INSISTED on running water as a condition of moving into the area. (She and my father built a 3 BR [eventually 5- like Tara, Topsy and cancer it just sorta grew] brick house that would pass unnoticed in any middle class suburban neighborhood but was referred to locally as “the perfessir’s mansion up there on the hill”; my father used toilets mostly but never did cotton to bathing more than once a week.)
And then there were the two dozen dogs we had at any given time as well as the ghost of the slave-rapist and the Indian mound and the dead-cat-Nativity-set… all in all, what seemed a boring upbringing at the time doesn’t always seem so mundane in retrospect.
There is a ‘no tolerance’ to petty crimes nowadays, partly to prevent more Columbines, partly in response to the success ‘Broken Glass’ program in New York.
Help me out with this one. By prosecuting someone for possession of a penis, and discharge of urine in a quasi-public setting, we’re dealing with sociopathic behavior and assembly of IEDs in what way? :dubious:
This is the whole problem with ‘zero tolerance.’ It’s akin to zero common sense. He isn’t some ‘serial pisser’ filling public mailboxes, ice machines, and ATMs with recycled beer. He’s just a student at a party who did as generations before him have done. :rolleyes:
Okay, this one you’re going to have to explain…
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, as to the question before you, “Did William Faulkner write fiction or was he a true and accurate documentarian of the American South of the 20th Century,” I rest my case.
The officer and prosecutor should be shot by a firing squad. - No joke.
If you want to make a point of underage drinking, give him an underage drunkiness ticket. Since when is a much needed urine release considered “lewd”? He went to an area where there was no one around. These fuckers can choke on it as far as I’m concerned.
Why can't I ever have anyone like you on my jury panels?...Forgive me, I don’t know what you mean. If you’re implying that I’m some kind of asshat, then… You should know that I’m really not a violent person in real life. The comments about the choking, and the firing squad, were just examples of my extreme hatred for people like the officer and the prosecutor. I really don’t wish them to die, but I wouldn’t really be sad if, well, they died. Going after a man for taking a piss in an deliberate area where he was unlikely to been seen, and then charge him with an offense that has nothing to do with the claims of…
…when the real crime here is underage drinking, not public indecency. It’s just so hypocritical that it pisses me off. That’s all.
Is that what you meant?