In Scranton, a woman might get 90 days in jail / fined $300 for shouting profanities at an overflowing toilet while inside her home, here.
Dave Barry’s comment here.
Too severe. Try 30 days in the hole.
If that lady was in the South and followed some of the more genteel cursing methods currently being evaluated in a neighboring thread, do you think the outcome would be the same?
“her potty mouth”? “the obscenities hit the fan”? The Times-Tribune knows how to send these nuggets through The Pipes.
#2, I am happier than a pig in shit that I live in the country, because I’ve been known to let loose a string of verbal diarrhea in the direction of my clogged toilet.
It’s worth noting that this only ever got anywhere because the listener was an off-duty cop who called his on-duty mates, who of course were going to support him. And that he only called them after HE told HER to “Shut the fuck up”, which was certainly done “with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm". If he escapes without a reprimand for wasting public resources it’s a travesty, but IMO he should be charged with the identical offense.
Can you face criminal charges for screaming at a toilet?
Oh shit. When I go to the bathroom in the dark, I have what I thought was an irrational fear of something coming out of the bowl and biting my hoo-ha. Just great.
Someone sent me that link earlier. We decided that she should only be punished if she was screaming libel about the toilet
I like this statement, by Mary Catherine Roper, attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, at the end of the article:
Yesterday I asked the mods to change my OP title to Not the language police but they never did.
Stupid woman. Plumbers charge a fortune for snaking out a drain and here it was being done for free and what does she do? instead of being happy, she screams! :rolleyes: 
Wouldn’t it technically be slander?
And, while I’m not a lawyer, it seems clear to me (based just on the article, of course) that there was never any intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm. Oh, unless you count telling the off-duty police officer to “mind his own business,”…after he already told her to “shut the fuck up.” :rolleyes:
Who’s intentionally causing a public inconvenience?
alright slander. I mean you cant just shout just shout character defaming lies about the toilet. What if that toilet wanted to run for public office?
Given its usual contents, I think it’d be uniquely qualified for the position.
baaaa-zinnnngggggg I was timing that one.
Always glad to be of service. 
It would be caught with men in the bathroom pretty much all the time.
Haven’t we already determined that the First Amendment does not give us the right to shout “Shit!” in a crowded bathroom?
gigi’s was better. keep trying, babycakes
How about “Bombs away!”?