2 year old ('s dad) gets $50. 00 fine for public urination

In a news article yesterday a 2 year old boy's dad was given a fine for letting the boy drop his pants and urinate in public. He really had to go badly and no restrooms were available. Now if the boy was still in diapers and needed a change, public changing is A-OK. They try to potty change the boy and smack! Guess we should keep the diapers. LOL but really?

That's just plain crazy. The poor boy will never be potty trained now because he's going to associate taking a wizz as a bad thing, as well as the police.

If I was the father I would have whipped out my penis, took a piss then handed the officer a hundred dollar bill and said, "All I had was a hudred dollar bill, didn't figure you had change." But I'm snarky like that at times, lol.

Mashie

I know back in the day I pulled over and let my little one go in a ditch a few times on long car trips. I bet almost any mom you talk to has had to let their toddler drop trou in public.

I read it was a mother and son btw.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/police-ticket-woman-potty-training-2-old-son-170115297.html

I am less sympathetic about the woman who brought the potty chair to the restaurant though!

http://www.wtop.com/681/3024568/Utah-woman-takes-potty-training-public

I can see an argument against this though. A diaper contains the pee, where a whiz along the street does not. The "reasonable" assumption is that a diaper would be disposed of in a trash bin or other such place. The reality is that I'm sure we've all encountered the poop stack explosion in the parking lot or other such spot.

Such is the rule of law though.

I stand corrected, it still seems way extreme. Let's go get him Mashie. 😃

LOL. You lead, I'll follow.

Mashie

LOL - as a kid if i had to go and no restrooms were available, i squatted wherever my parents told me to squat. Side of the car, against a tree... etc. its not like this father had any other options and in order to save the kid from having wet pants and being very uncomfortable, its easy to have him face a wall and pee. I see no problem with what this father did.... and Mashie... I would have done the same thing with the 100 dollar bill 😉

I think a lot of people miss the point with this. It is public urination, which is against the law. The law is blind, it does not see age, sex, race, etc. Either America needs to be more lenient with everyone on it, or no one. And I do think a warning would have been acceptable here.

@blueice so what would you suggest? You are the parent and there are no bathrooms around. What do you do?

Blueice do you have kids? If you do you will see this was stupid on the officers part. The cop could have made his point to little jr by telling him "its not right to pee outside where others could see him and also its against the law". "You wouldnt want me to arrest you and take your mom dad away from you for a day now would you"?

see allot easier to talk that way to child then to give him a ticket and hate the cops already in young age.