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Race played role in sentencing of Black child, 10, for urinating in public, lawyer says
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Raise your hand if you have ever peed in a public area. ✋
I'm not falling for that officer.
Even If it was I would take a piss on your officer.
God America is weird, you realize in most European countries if you are caught pissing in the street the police will:
1 shout to try and scare you and then tell you to fuck off
2 nothing else unless you have a private beef with that specific cop
3 Scandinavian countries are their own thing, but Scandinavians probably wouldn't piss in the street lol
We realize that, but in America you become a police officer for one of two reasons: you actually believe they are the good guys (lmao) or you want to abuse power over people and fuck around in a fast car.
I'm sure you can guess who 90% of the applicants are.
Due to the cult mentality, the first group very quickly becomes the second.
Northern Europe meanwhile actually has a problem where no one wants to become a cop. Mostly because you're not allowed to do these things and you get paid more in McDonald's anyway.
Of course there is still the option of becoming a politician.
My guess is Scandinavians also find ready access to public urinals. In Mississippi this would be a wholly unthinkable expenditure of govt tax funds which are already allocated to a for-profit prison, probably. Mississippi is a third-world state.
Hey! That stadium for Bret Favre won’t pay for itself!
Ain't just Mississippi. Public toilets are generally infrequent in most of the US.. Fast food franchises are frequently the only bathrooms you can use.
It was a joke about entrapment. It wasn't an endorsement of America's police.
Oh my I'm surprised.
It's simple, we just pee on the cop.
After all normally they have to pay quite a lot of money for that kind of treatment.
Source?
I can tell you for sure that it's not legal in Germany.
It's not legal, but the most you get for it is a fine of around 35 euros in most cases. No judges or jail sentence involved.
Don't have to tell me twice.
Last year I took my daughter to her therapist. She goes after hours. I really had to pee. There was no bathroom in the waiting room and all the other places in the building were closed, so I ran out and peed behind the dumpster. Sometimes you just have to pee.
I peed my pants, does that count?
All the cool guys pee their pants