Oh my goodness. The kid had probably been holding it in for a while and had to go. A ten year old doesn’t necessarily know that a lawyer’s office would have a public restroom and his mother probably told him to stay in the car.
I remember times when I was young my parents often had to stop on the side of the road to let one of us young ones step out of the car to pee.
The cops definitely over reacted. If you agree that the child needed arrested then what other punishment do you think okay for this infraction. Ten weeks in jail? Death penalty? Just think any law passed can be enforced at gunpoint. There should be allowances in the law for children’s needs and for goodness-sake, the cops should allowed for some leniency for a ten year old child!
Now, this child will grow up in fear of police and readily believe they are all “out to get you”.
Also, it matters not the name of the child. That had nothing to do with the child’s actions or the over-reaction (I hope) of the officers.
Agree. :Poor little boy.
Agreed!
I would have saved my ire for the mom who didn’t have the foresight to bring her son into the office with her.
True story...
We used to road trip several times a year when the kids were young. During a long haul home, my youngest had to pee. I told my husband twice to pull over at the next stop but he argued with me. My oldest gave my youngest an empty Gatorade bottle to use, thinking we could cap it off and dispose of it later. We hit a bump, the bottle jolted, his member came out of the bottle, and my baby boy started spray peeing all over (including the back of my husband’s head). He was very young and started crying hysterically, thinking he would be in big trouble.
Talk about instant karma.
The look I gave my husband could have melted steel. “Don’t say a word,” I warned him.
He remained silent the rest of the way home and I got to scrub the urine out of the van. At the time, I was livid. Now, we laugh about it.