Posted on 03/08/2006 3:07:42 PM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- It's a crime in California to urinate in a public place, a state appeals court ruled today.
The case before the court came from Berkeley, where a police officer detained a man urinating in the parking lot of a closed restaurant one Sunday morning in January 2003. The officer searched David McDonald and found drugs.
McDonald was charged with narcotics possession. But if he hadn't been committing a crime in the first place -- urinating in the open -- the search would have been illegal and the found drugs couldn't be used against him.
To deal with the question, a Court of Appeal panel in San Francisco turned to a 19th century state law that defines a public nuisance as an act that is "injurious to health, or is indecent, or offensive to the senses.''
The act must also interfere with "the comfortable enjoyment of life or property'' by a community, or a neighborhood, or "any considerable number of persons.''
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
We'd have to take precautions to prevent the spread of hearing AIDS.
And not to be homo alone or march to a different drum.
I hope that doesn't apply to the restaurant.
Drum? I thought we were talking about organs on this thread....
your a fast sicko
What about a fence? Possibly the electric kind....
That's the least of it. I once had busines at DOT hq in Washington DC. I left my room and took the Metro to L'Enfant plaza, then the escalator to DOT.
Imagine my shock on exiting into the open, the first thing I see is an old homeless woman taking a bath in the fountain.
Drum? I thought we were talking about organs on this thread....
You must have gotten the wrong notes.
LOL, I had one of those, plus the one with the butane lighter inside, talk about a burning sensation!
That is a message from the property owners. They don't want you walking around there.
So9
Oh pipe down...you're not half the whiz-kid you think you are; you'd think you put the "P" in pun, and that your cup runneth over when it comes to humor, but the truth of the matter is that your glass is only half full.
Where was the other post that had the civil liberties folks saying that this law was anti-Hispanic?
Oh pipe down...you're not half the whiz-kid you think you are; you'd think you put the "P" in pun, and that your cup runneth over when it comes to humor, but the truth of the matter is that your glass is only half full.
This law would be a good tactic at a Washington DC pro basketball game.
What happens if you have a medical problem that causes you to urinate without warning what are you supposed to do. I know it maybe unlawful to urinate in public but when you have to go you have to go. Why ruin your kidneys by stopping the flow. Just be as discrete as possible.
Any guy's out there with prostate trouble, You'll understand what I mean.
It might keep a lot of that dribbling to a minimum.
It might keep a lot of that dribbling to a minimum.
Imagine the cheer--"Let's go Wiz, Let's go wiz...." It would be funny enough to make those with 6-packs choke on their Joe's.
As he was talking to the other driver (who was still incoherent), "brother" got out of the car, whipped it out, and started to take a leak on the ground right in front of the officer. In a flash, brother and sister were in handcuffs in the back of the police car. The officer called me later to give me "sister's" information, and I could hear "brother" still hollering in the background, "When you gotta go man, you gotta go." The cop said the desk sergeant had found brother to be unamusing, and brother was being charged, among other things, with indecent exposure.
Try visiting Philadelphia with a full bladder. |
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