Thread: Public Urination?

Originally Posted by stratosverian

Buddy of mine got a ticket for it during St Louis Mardi Gras. He's on the sex offender list

If you're changing someone's depends in public.....I guess SO!!!!

Here is the bottom line. Everyone has had to p while on the lake. Get over next to the bank, and position the boat in an angle against the bank. Kneel down next to the outboard motor and no one is going to say one word. Keep your rod and reel close to you so it looks like you are hung up and nobody will know the difference. If you still do not feel comfortable with that, carry a liter sized pop bottle in the boat so you can do your business and screw the lid on and then dispose of it when you get home. Just curious about one thing however, have people been ticketed for actually peeing in a bottle in the boat? If that is the case, then I think that is a little too intrusive on the part of the law!!!!

It all comes down to common sense. 99.9% of MDC agents will decide on each different situation based on common sense. If someone is taking a leak from their boat in an out-of-the-way spot...no problem. But if he's in sight of families/kids, then maybe a ticket for public urination would be the right thing to do. I haven't heard the story of anyone being put on a sex offender list for this, but before I would condemn an agent for being a jerk, I would want to know the whole story. It's always been my understanding that a sex offender has to be a convicted felon for some deviant behavior, and I would think public urination would be a misdemeanor charge. All that being said, I'm sure somewhere there is an agent who might try to "overcharge" some of his cases.

Originally Posted by vic n

It's always been my understanding that a sex offender has to be a convicted felon for some deviant behavior, and I would think public urination would be a misdemeanor charge.

Vic....the ticket isn't for public urination...it's for "exposing oneself". And justice is blind, so the perpetrator of public urination gets penalized the same way as a guy flashing a group of school kids, provided the ticket gets written up the same way. I'm not disagreeing with anything you say, 'cept insofar as that a sex offender does NOT have to be a convicted felon for some deviant behavior.

I don't know how the law reads, and what latitudes an agent might have. Seems like everyone knows the difference between being discrete and being flagrant so the situation and circumstances should obviously be taken into account. Kinda like someone flying down ice covered roads in a snowstorm. Maybe the officer can't write them up for speeding, if they were under the speed limit, but could ticket for reckless driving or "too fast for conditions".

Originally Posted by Joedog

Vic.... I'm not disagreeing with anything you say, 'cept insofar as that a sex offender does NOT have to be a convicted felon for some deviant behavior.

Ummmmm.......why are you so well-versed on this?

This one time at crappie (band) camp...........

This is almost as good as the chain dragging thread. Keep it going,there is nothing on tv anyway.

" carry a liter sized pop bottle in the boat so you can do your business "

Does it have to be or should it be a Mountain Dew bottle.