Mom is PO'd with ticket

[CaliforniaCajun]

Mom gets ticket after 2-year-old son pees in the street - U.S. News

[Otto]

Must be a slow news day.

[KenWeir]

Some people think anything is ok as long as they have a reason. Not saying a 2yo bladder is 100% controllable, but if a kid pees in public his mom should expect the ticket.

If I'm going 90 on the interstate because my wife is at the hospital I still have to expect speeding tickets because regardless of how urgent I think it might be, I'm still endangering other drivers in the eye of the law.

In this case it was indecent, inappropriate & just plain smells, which are the exact reasons that ordinance/statute/law exists to begin with.

[thebigspendur]

See, that's what they mean by over reaching Govt.

In a truly free country you should be able to Pee where-ever and whenever you want as long as it's not in the wind of course.

[smalltank]

My grandfather owned some apt. buildings..the one he lived in..he used to pee on the side of the building..well..as I watched this..I was about 10yrs old...my mom just told me to go upstairs..." gross" ...I thought to myself

See, that's what they mean by over reaching Govt.

In a truly free country you should be able to Pee where-ever and whenever you want as long as it's not in the wind of course.

[honedright]

I'll tell ya.....

Never let a woman do a man's job. Next time let Dad show the kid the right place to go where he won't get busted. Jeeze...

Nothing like Micturation Al Fresco...... ahhhh!

[Bruno]

Some people think anything is ok as long as they have a reason. Not saying a 2yo bladder is 100% controllable, but if a kid pees in public his mom should expect the ticket.

If I'm going 90 on the interstate because my wife is at the hospital I still have to expect speeding tickets because regardless of how urgent I think it might be, I'm still endangering other drivers in the eye of the law.

In this case it was indecent, inappropriate & just plain smells, which are the exact reasons that ordinance/statute/law exists to begin with.

Perhaps, but there is also a sense of proportion required.
Laws are there for a reason, but if we can't accept that there are special circumstances, we've gone too far. The fines exist to prevent people from urinating in the street. That is where the fines make a difference.

With a 2 year old, the fine is NOT going to make a difference. He is going to pee there and then, with or without his pants on. The fine is not going to make a difference, and the mother can't really do anything about it.

This is one of the reasons that cops are allowed to give formal or even informal warnings instead of tickets.

I think every parent has had a situation like this during potty training.
Ditto for store policy. Some stores don't have a restroom for the customers. But one or 2 times I asked a store attendant to use their private one because my daughter was potty training and she needed to pee within the next minute or 2 or we'd have a pee accident.

Never had a problem with it and people always understood.

[gssixgun]

I gotta say it

Tis better to be PO'd then P ON'd

[Nightblade]

[QUOTE=Bruno;1024686]Perhaps, but there is also a sense of proportion required.
Laws are there for a reason, but if we can't accept that there are special circumstances, we've gone too far. The fines exist to prevent people from urinating in the street. That is where the fines make a difference.

Finally...I get to use this..... ..............this goes for so many laws nowadays .

[nun2sharp]

I remember turning the corner on an aisle and watching a kid take a dump in a display toilet at Home Depot while his parents walked down the aisle not suspecting a thing. Kids are kids, at 2 yrs of age how much discernment is this boy supposed to have. His mother did what she could with the situation at the moment. How many dogs have done the same thing at the same spot. Garbage trucks go down the streets all day everyday leaking God knows what. The officer who wrote the ticket is a fool in my book.