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A small business owner in San Francisco was punched in the face by a man after asking him to stop urinating on the street outside his restaurant, according to police. Peterson Harter, who owns and operates Sandy’s on the city’s iconic Haight Street, told KTVU that he was attacked around 5 p.m. Wednesday after confronting the public urinator.

WHEATON, Md. (WJLA) - An undocumented immigrant urinating in public used a box cutter to repeatedly stab a man who had merely suggested he pull up his trousers and use a proper restroom, police say. On Nov. 30, around 11 p.m., Montgomery County Police were dispatched to the Wheaton Metro bus turnaround along Georgia Avenue. Upon stepping out of their cruisers, officers saw a man with stab wounds and bloody slashes to his neck, face and stomach. The victim, plus an uninjured eyewitness, pointed officers toward Salvador Gomez-Lopez, 46, who was allegedly drunk and belligerent. The two men explained that...

New Yorkers should prepare for a loud, smelly summer. As of Tuesday, scofflaws who commit certain quality-of-life violations — including urinating, boozing or blasting loud music in public — will get little more than a slap on the wrist.

Go ahead and pop the champagne: the NYPD will no longer arrest most people who are caught drinking alcohol in public in Manhattan, the city announced today—but they can still get a summons. Unless it’s “necessary for public safety reasons,” the NYPD will no longer arrest people for certain low-level offenses in Manhattan, including public consumption of alcohol, public urination, littering and riding between subway cars or taking up more than one subway seat—and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. will no longer prosecute those infractions, his office said today. Offenders can still receive summonses, which require them to pay...

<p>HOUSTON (KPRC/CNN) - He's the multi-millionaire and real estate heir who keeps making news for the wrong reasons.</p> <p>Surveillance video has been released showing accused killer Robert Durst urinating on candy in a pharmacy in 2014.</p> <p>The video wasn't made public until Wednesday.</p>

A mid-level San Francisco water manager is under fire for urinating into a reservoir that’s a source of drinking water for 2.5 million Bay Area customers. City Hall sources tell us that Martin Sanchez, a $111,000-a-year maintenance planner for the Public Utilities Commission, will probably be suspended without pay for the maximum five days allowed as a result of the Jan. 6 incident at the Priest Reservoir in the Sierra foothills near Sonora. Priest is one of four holding reservoirs for San Francisco and other Bay Area cities that receive Hetch Hetchy water. Utilities commission spokesman Tyrone Jue said the...

<p>KERMIT, W.Va. (AP/KDKA) – Health officials have temporarily shut down a southern West Virginia pizza restaurant after a district manager was caught on surveillance video urinating into a sink.</p> <p>Local media reported that the Mingo County health department ordered the Pizza Hut in Kermit, about 85 miles southwest of Charleston, to shut down.</p>

The Marine Corps said Wednesday that it is investigating the origins of a video on the Internet that purports to show Marines in combat gear urinating on the corpses of three Taliban insurgents.

An official says the U.S. Marine Corps has identified at least two of the four marines in an internet video that purports to depict them urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan. A marine official said Thursday that the four were members of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, which returned to its home base in North Carolina last fall after a tour in Afghanistan. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because a criminal investigation is underway. The official said that at least some of the four marines are no longer in that battalion. He provided no other details. (Snip) Panetta

Police in Jersey City have arrested an ex-con they say has been urinating on women at a bus stop in Journal Square, a source said Wednesday. Nitinkumar Patel, 27, has urinated on at least seven women in the last three months, a law enforcement source said. He was caught Wednesday morning while urinating on a 16-year-old girl at the bus stop, a law enforcement source said. Two victims have identified Patel, the source said. He spent almost six years in prison for aggravated assault convictions, according to the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Patel was released in January 2009.

Legal news for Washington personal injury attorneys. A man was killed after urinating on live power line in Grays Harbor County. Washington personal injury lawyers alert- A man was killed by electrocution after urinating on a live wire in Montesano, WA. Montesano, WA—A Washington man who escaped a single vehicle collision without any serious injuries, was then killed by electrocution while waiting for a family member to come pull his car from a ditch. The Grays Harbor County Sherriff’s Department reported that the man was killed on Friday, February 26, 2010, as reported by MSNBC. According to deputies, Roy Messenger...

CHIBA — Police on Friday arrested a truck driver Friday on suspicion of property damage after he allegedly urinated on a towel at the entrance of the apartment belonging to a woman he liked. Police said that 22-year-old Yuuki Oshima, a resident of Noda Cioty, visited the woman’s apartment after midnight on Nov 19 and urinated through the mail slot in the door onto a towel that was hung inside to keep people from peeping into the apartment. Police said Oshima admits to the charges, and quoted him as saying, “I absolutely went crazy for her the first time I...

WESTBORO— What some residents of Fountainhead Apartments thought was a pet’s urine in the elevators turned out to be that of one of their neighbors. Residents of the Route 9 apartment complex continually complained to management of smelling urine in the two elevators. After about 30 incidents over a four-month period, management contacted a crime prevention agency and arranged to have a hidden video camera installed in one of the elevators. Police said that within a month, the camera captured Alicio Marcio Camargo, 26, urinating in an elevator on four occasions. One of the incidents happened minutes before midnight on...

A Riverdale police captain accused of urinating into a pond at a Metro Atlanta theme park turned himself into authorities in Fayette County Wednesday. "He had every intention of turning himself in right away as soon as he could talk to me about the charges," said attorney Leslie Miller Terry. Riverdale Police Captain Carl Freeman is accused of relieving himself while outdoors at the Dixieland Fun Park in Fayette County. The incident happened as Freeman stood on a bridge over the "feed-the-fish pond." "On Monday, Labor Day, Mr. Freeman was allegedly observed by the park owner urinating in a man-made...

<p>SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A former guard was ordered Monday to scrub toilets while serving 15 days behind bars for urinating from a roof onto inmates playing basketball.</p> <p>Greene County (search) Circuit Judge Don Burrell (search) said he hoped the sentence would help Justin Hastings better understand what it was like to be dependent on those with power.</p>

<p>In a city rife with bar hoppers and street people relieving themselves on sidewalks, alleys and busy streets, the stench of urine has joined fresh sourdough and coffee as among the city's famous aromas.</p> <p>And the usually tolerant board of supervisors is no longer going with the flow.</p>