If you are walking in a park and really need to use the bathroom and the choices are "do it on yourself or in a private section of the park" where you think a cop may not be, why should you get a ticket or be charged with public lewdness if there are no bathrooms nearby and you really need to go, honestly?
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What a conflict it is.When I used to drive 75 miles to work and back.sometimes there is no choice but to find an isolated place to relieve yourself.
Unfortunatley some have made it to a point that a city I used to "frequent" madi it a lewd act if you are caught and a misdomeanor.but try and see if you can use the local resteraunt or gas station..."customers only"...what's a person to do?
Last time I checked, there is no "right to take a whiz in plain view" under the Constitution.
Yes, I believe that in this day and age you can expect to be ticketed for ANY slight infraction. The Cities are hungry for money. No revenue/no jobs/no raises. They will not tell you there is a so called "qouta" but be assured that there have to be some type of "measures" in place to guage productivity. Bottom line is always about money.
You answered your own question...it's a PUBLIC park, I am sure they have PUBLIC restrooms. My kids play in the PUBLIC park, and we don't want to see your wee wee by accident because you don't feel like finding the PUBLIC restroom.
Well, how do you think women handle that same situation? Pee in the woods?
Grow up.
I assume that at some point in your life you've smelled stale, stagnant urine in the air. Imagine hundreds, thousands of people peeing in public, hidden or not, because they couldn't find a restroom, and what the "public" areas would eventually smell like. Having said that, risk it if you dare and have no other options. "Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, yeeeeaaaaahhh.(don't do it.)"
You should get a ticket because the officer thinks you committed an offense.
A ticket is NOT a conviction. Go to court and argue it before a judge.
This is a matter of state law, of course, and so you will likely have 50 different wordings, but as one example, Indiana Code 35-45-4-1.5(b) says "A person who knowingly or intentionally appears in a public place in a state of nudity commits public nudity, a Class C misdemeanor."
If you quietly and persuasively tell the judge that you were not intentionally nude, but that you sought out a secluded corner of the park to avoid public nudity, and were principally intending not to soil your clothing in a manner that would offend public sensibilities, the judge might agree that you're innocent.
If you walked up to a tree for privacy, it would strengthen your case.
in some places it is legal if you are far enough from a public restroom. in new orleans if you were homeless and got caught peeing in public you would be arrested for public masterbation and put on the sex offenders list, at least it was that way before katrina now they might be a little more excepting of the homeless.
Doesn't NYC cite for "public urination"? If no one other than the cop saw you (especially no kids) perhaps you can plead it down, first offense.
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