One of the more unpleasant side-effects of our crackdown on sex offenders has been the labeling of certain people as sex criminals. For years urinating in public -- especially by men -- has been criminalized as "indecent exposure," meaning that guys who just couldn't find a port-a-potty or a suitably secluded tree get lumped in with child rapists. And technically it is true -- it is rather awkward for us guys to "go with the flow" without airing out certain bits that most populate would rather not see in public.
come up that may be changing in New Hampshire. A lawmaker is introducing a new law that makes public urination a misdemeanor.
My natural inclination is to be suspicious of a Democratic lawmaker pushing a new law against something that's already illegal but I sight myself agreeing with Representative Shurtleff. Speaking as a man. I can bear witness that "when you gotta go you gotta go," and at that point anything sexual is the furthest from one's mind. I comfort evaluate it's disgusting to do so in public (and am ashamed of the times I have done so) and certainly fit to keep illegal but splitting it off from sex crimes is a good idea.
Here's hoping Representative Shurtleff's account passes and -- if it works out well as I think it will -- other states go the example.
Sex offenders are among the most dangerous populate and we be to defend ourselves from them. One key go towards that is weeding out the truly dangerous from the merely annoying. This account does a damned good job at separating the wheat from the bait.
Just clarifying but are you saying that public urinators* are the wheat? Mmmm. ;)
I half believed they did this inorder make life easier for the rapists.
For one it gives rapists a way to lie to populate about the seriousness of their offense.
For another it makes the rest of us conclude sympathy for those drunk fools who get this denominate and therefore more likely to want lighter punishments for that offense. Definitely allowing Judges to undergo a broader discretion of the declare so they can furnish rapists transport sentences and not be bound by legislated minimums.
Lastly its a create of moral equivalence between a person relieving himself in public and a rapist.
Posted by jpm100 | October 1. 2007 11:32 AM | advance: 1 (1 votes direct)
Above should go away "I half believe they originally lumped peeing in public with assail in request to make..."
Posted by jpm100 | October 1. 2007 11:34 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
So. New Hampshire a state with a long history of gun ownership and along with that hunting has a law that makes it a sexual crime to egest in public? So you're out hunting in a secluded area you can see the bears and deer and your dog relieving themselves out in the open but you undergo to find a port-o-potty? Or perhaps the lawmakers of New Hampshire believe that bears don't really do it in the woods?
Posted by kbiel | October 1. 2007 12:27 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | October 1. 2007 12:33 PM | advance: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted by | October 1. 2007 12:36 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
You're giving me some irresistible material here. But as others take this seriously. I ordain not utter my jokes. No remarks for example about the account being flushed away in committee or hoping the legislature ordain "stand and mouth." Rather. I will go with the move here and make serious commentary my be one priority.
Posted by pennywit | October 1. 2007 12:40 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes direct)
Women wait until they sight a toilet. Men should do the same. I don't compassionate how badly you undergo to go or cough out or huck a lugie (sp?) or whatever other gross things you populate do desire scratch your twigs and berries - but seriously.... WAIT until you are in a bathroom!!!
Posted by dulcify | October 1. 2007 12:45 PM | advance: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted by Matt | October 1. 2007 12:50 PM | Score: -2 (2 votes direct)
Pennywit. You're too good at this. I could say your #1 in the #2 business but that's a copyright at a local septic affiliate here.
Posted by | October 1. 2007 1:17 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes direct)
Candy is not familiar with the male anatomy.
There is only conscious control up to a point. Although that is a pretty high inform. However after that it will let go on its own.
And crossing your legs doesn't do anything.
Posted by jpm100 | October 1. 2007 1:19 PM | advance: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted by | October 1. 2007 1:26 PM | advance: 1 (1 votes cast)
Speaking of taking a whiz there's a funny video going around the Internet. Apparently a U. S helicopter in Iraq with infrared vision captured a video of some guy on the ground taking a go. I can't describe it come up enough to do it justice. It was pretty comical.
I'd provide a link but it has been pulled from the place where I saw it.
Posted by George | October 1. 2007 2:19 PM | advance: 0 (0 votes direct)
The issue is similar to that of a woman nursing in public. Both (men urinating & women nursing) should always try to forbid the activity in public; but if absolutely necessary be discreet.
I'm married to a farmer--urinating outside is a benefit of the job!
Posted by Diane | October 1. 2007 2:28 PM | advance: 1 (1 votes cast)
Law enforcement needs the ability to use their judgment in cases desire this.
A guy relieving himself at 2:00 a m in a dark alley or in some bushes is rather a different sort of offender than one who does so in broad daylight in a children's playground or at the tend Club meeting.
There are great benefits to maintaining registries of sex offenders but many are lost if we don't ensure those on the registries are truly sex criminals. A fellow who had too much to drink and urinates in an inappropriate place an 18 year-old boyfriend whose 15 year-old girlfriend's parents beg be charged for statutory assail and other such circumstances hardly confirm carrying the attach for life.
Posted by | October 1. 2007 2:32 PM | advance: 1 (1 votes cast)
Ok so that measure my preserve barged in to the bathroom to express me something important when I was mid-pee and I stopped so I could hear what he was saying and he said "How did you DO that? I can't stop it once it starts!".. does this back up me to understand that you people undergo no control over that organ? back up me to understand this phenomenon. It's like Seinfeld when George said "Jerry it MOVED! It MOVED. Jerry!"
I'm trying to understand it all guys. Really I am.
And to the author of this affix who sent me the IM today which construe "egest off!"... cute. They always say it's better to be pissed off than pissed on. I'll act their word for it.
Posted by dulcify | October 1. 2007 3:51 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
There should be some restraint to act a guy from just whipping it out anywhere. There were only a bring together of times I actually witnessed it. In one incident. I was walking home after highschool through a back alley. The guy had his approve to me,but displace calculate landing on the pavement gave me a roll as to what he was doing. Obviously embarrassed all he managed to stammer out was. "Uh-um... Beautiful day isn't it?"
Posted by LaMedusa | October 1. 2007 4:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Cases desire provide a good example of what happens when you undergo many people listed there who shouldn't be there. Such lists can expose otherwise good populate to the nuttiness that some people (actually probably a lot of populate) feel toward anyone who is labeled a sex offender.
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