jimjack on 8/7/2008 at 15:39

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Can cost you dearly.

Three mornings ago, I arose early and took the dog for a walk. I headed up to the park and went along a trail that was completely deserted. I had also taken in a grande latte I picked up along the way, and I was starting to get an uncomfortable feeling that I was going to have to duck into the bushes for a wee. It seems toilets in this part of the park are short in supply or they just don't exist.

I went off the path and made my way as far into the scrub and of course it had to be one of those marathon moments when you feel like you're going to be at if for another ten minutes. I crashed out of the bushes zipping myself up as two old ladies were walking up the path. They looked utterly shocked and one of them called me a dirty piece of work and they strode off double time..I apologized after them that they had to see that and it wasn't anything that should have been covered up as I swaned out of the bushes and pretty much left it at that.

As I walked back into the park they were talking to a parks board officer and got all worked up when they saw me. Oh shit. They might be thinking I was having a wank in the bushes..He strode over to me and told me that I could be issued with a citation including a $250+ fine for public urination and worst case scenario Lewd public act and it could have been taken as a sexual act. I am to be lucky he was not a police officer..Woah I could a have been put on a some kind of sexual offenders list?! Anyway he let me off with a warning before going off to placate the two bats, and I went off home feeling like a filthy pervert.

Pees in back yard, arrests self for public indecency.

jimjack on 8/7/2008 at 16:02

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It certainly takes the joy out of a satisfying pee.

I seem to have bad experiences when I'm in the bush.:(

I mean what do you do?? It's not like I was standing against a wall in full view of anyone.

jimjack on 8/7/2008 at 17:05

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Yes. Maybe I have a small bladder because I don't see how my age has to do with incontinence, but coffee and even one beer will go through me like a seive.



I find this hard to believe. I mean who hasn't.





PC ..public courtesy?

baeuchlein on 8/7/2008 at 18:05

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Perhaps he/she's wearing diapers all the time. :cheeky: Or large rubber boots and long trousers.



:idea: Maybe personal control.

Well, urinating in public is forbidden around here as well. Public toilets, however, aren't exactly found around every corner. Do officials really expect us to piss into the trousers, then? (As far as I know, that would be allowed... the law merely says you may not pollute public places, although showing anyone your reproductive organs usually isn't exactly allowed either... but that's covered by sexual laws and seldom connected to urinating.)

Okay, one shouldn't lower his/her internal bladder pressure right in front of a bunch of school kids (wheter for sexual or pollution matters I'll leave up to you), and certainly something has to be done against people turning any tunnel into a toilet (at least concerning the smell there). On the other hand: If there's no public toilet around, you don't have many options here in Germany, for it's very uncommon to allow strangers to use the toilet of your house. You're not supposed to knock on someone's door and say, "Hello, I'd like to piss. Where's your toilet?"

Seriously, I think this is an example showing that people who think the law regulates everything are too detached from real life. Unfortunately, such people are common here as well. If a public toilet is nearby and you're found urinating in public, a fine would be fine with me. If not and if the one wetting a tree takes reasonable care not to be seen by anyone else, I think this matter should be ignored. I'd call it an act of tolerance. (Ignoring the matter - not wetting the tree! :cheeky: )

But unfortunately, many people seem to think different about this. If the same people are caught by police while driving too fast, however, they probably think it's not such a big deal.

I'll never understand humans.:tsktsk:

fett on 8/7/2008 at 20:07

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I predict that this thread will continue to suck until Shug posts.