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Should Public Urination Land Someone on Sex Offender List?

Should a public urinater be labeled a sex offender?

  • Yes, public urination should be considered a sex offense

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • If the urination was intent on exposing oneself in the process, yes

    Votes: 4 16.7%
  • There should be different levels of sex offenders, with each case considered individually

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • The sex offender laws need total revamping

    Votes: 8 33.3%
  • Public urination on par with rape? Ridiculous!

    Votes: 9 37.5%
  • Other, please explain.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Public urinaters should be hung

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    24

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According to this article State Supreme Court Upholds Part Of Jessica's Law - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego , urinating in public is apparently on par with rape.

SAN DIEGO -- The California Supreme Court Monday upheld part of Jessica’s Law, which prohibits registered sex offenders from living near schools and parks. However, the high court sent questions about the constitutionality of the law to the lower courts to figure out.

The case involves four plaintiffs, two from San Diego. J.S. is a registered sex offender because he was convicted of urinating under a railroad trestle in 1985 in Texas. K.T. raped an adult 20 years ago.

J.S. and K.T. are on parole and said they’ll end up homeless under Jessica’s Law, which states that registered sex offenders “shall not reside within 2,000 feet of any public or private school or park.

This sounds totally insane to me. What do you think?
 
Absolutely not, but we've gone crazy with the sex offender thing. We've demonized it so much and run so purely off of emotion that we've set up an insane system where people end up on lists, those people sometimes can't even find a place to live because of the restrictions, etc. There's automatic punishments, automatic placement on lists, you can't readily get off the lists, etc. It's an entire system made by scared, stupid people because oh won't someone please think of the children. In the meantime, innocent people get caught up. You have kids in high school getting prosecuted for possession of child porn for having a naked picture of their girlfriends and all sorts of hysteria.

We need to stop listening to the stupid people, they aren't doing us any good.
 
According to this article State Supreme Court Upholds Part Of Jessica's Law - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego , urinating in public is apparently on par with rape.



This sounds totally insane to me. What do you think?

HO-LEE Crap!

Public urination should barely even be illegal what with most all businesses saying "no public restrooms" and what have you. I don't know how it is where everyone else is, but in Seattle, there are NO public facilities unlike basically every big city in Europe. And really, if no one sees you doing anything obvious who's to say you just aren't admiring the view.

As someone who has been caught in the "I gotta go" situation before there needs to be clear distinctions between sexual deviancy and a lack of preparation
 
If some creepo walks to a park full of kids, whips out his winkie and begins pissing..... absolutely.
 
You have kids in high school getting prosecuted for possession of child porn for having a naked picture of their girlfriends and all sorts of hysteria.

And that's another bit of ridiculousness! The reason why CP/Molestation/Stat Rape are all bad is because they abuse the power structure and hurt a person emotionally because of the POWER STRUCTURE not because of the act itself. People need to understand the psychology of such acts before they go condemning perfectly healthy, if risque, behavior.

Furthermore, in situations where there is no abusive power structure, it's really a 50-50 share of "blame" if you can even call it that. Were those girls prosecuted for producing CP? If not, then as far as I understand what really happens in these situations, they were not victims by any means and if yes, do you understand how crazy it is to be prosecuted because you took pictures of yourself?!?!
 
If some creepo walks to a park full of kids, whips out his winkie and begins pissing..... absolutely.
So your single scenario is the basis for your decision to make them all sex offenders? :roll:
 
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This is way over the top surely this wasnt the intent of the law.
 
Also does this mean sometimes people are just gonna have to go in their pants if they dont wanna break the law.
 
Notice, the law in question is called 'Jessica's Law', which was obviously named after a girl who was victimized, most likely killed, I'm not familiar with her case.

Often the grieving parents spearhead these laws as a way of dealing with their grief. Politicians get on the bandwagon and throw together laws 'to protect the children'. They gain easy political points with poorly thought out laws that lump public urinaters with rapists. The public supports them because the media has whipped them up into hysterics, and after all, who doesn't want to protect children?

Once you have a law in place, and a bureaucracy to support it, it's almost impossible to undo.
 
I pee in public all the time in California. I'm worried.
 
According to this article State Supreme Court Upholds Part Of Jessica's Law - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego , urinating in public is apparently on par with rape.



This sounds totally insane to me. What do you think?

I think the only people who should be labeled sex offenders are rapist,child molesters/rapists and child pornographers.These types of offenders is what the Jessica's law, the Megan's law and etc are supposed to protect kids from. Some guy pissing in the Bushes is not going to kidnap little Timmy nor is some 18-20 year old who got busted for engaging of statutory rape of a 15 year old nor is some crack whore prostitute down the street a threat to little Suzy. So I voted "The sex offender laws need total revamping"
 
I think the only people who should be labeled sex offenders are rapist,child molesters/rapists and child pornographers.These types of offenders is what the Jessica's law, the Megan's law and etc are supposed to protect kids from. Some guy pissing in the Bushes is not going to kidnap little Timmy nor is some 18-20 year old who got busted for engaging of statutory rape of a 15 year old nor is some crack whore prostitute down the street a threat to little Suzy. So I voted "The sex offender laws need total revamping"

I totally agree. I voted for a revamp too.
 
It has been my contention for years, that the City should be required to provide "Public faculties" for it's Citizens and guests. That is not to much to expect from a City.But City Counsel, in their wisdom, doesn't see it that way. so I pee where I please.
 
It depends if your into pissing or not. :2razz:
The politically correct elite have gone crazy with sex offenders laws.

I'm a sex offender?!??!?!?! :shock::shock:

Yes, but a very small one. :mrgreen:
 
Yes, those who urinate in public should be hung.

Most are fairly average in size, however.
 
If some creepo walks to a park full of kids, whips out his winkie and begins pissing..... absolutely.

Public Urination is a different crime from Public Indecency in the Presence of a Minor. And if it's not then it should be.
 
Absolutely not, but we've gone crazy with the sex offender thing. We've demonized it so much and run so purely off of emotion that we've set up an insane system where people end up on lists, those people sometimes can't even find a place to live because of the restrictions, etc. There's automatic punishments, automatic placement on lists, you can't readily get off the lists, etc. It's an entire system made by scared, stupid people because oh won't someone please think of the children. In the meantime, innocent people get caught up. You have kids in high school getting prosecuted for possession of child porn for having a naked picture of their girlfriends and all sorts of hysteria.

We need to stop listening to the stupid people, they aren't doing us any good.

Why does it have to be all bad or all good? Why can't we just create distinctions between child rapists and people who piss in a train yard?

Are you honestly saying we shouldn't try to keep track of child rapists? Are you honestly suggesting that it's paranoia to try and protect children from people who are pathologically inclined to rape them!?
 
Why does it have to be all bad or all good? Why can't we just create distinctions between child rapists and people who piss in a train yard?

Are you honestly saying we shouldn't try to keep track of child rapists? Are you honestly suggesting that it's paranoia to try and protect children from people who are pathologically inclined to rape them!?

If I may be so bold to speak, I believe Ikari isn't saying that we shouldn't try to keep track of child rapists, but rather we shouldn't put people who urinate in public on the same level as child rapists and keep track of them too.
 
If I may be so bold to speak, I believe Ikari isn't saying that we shouldn't try to keep track of child rapists, but rather we shouldn't put people who urinate in public on the same level as child rapists and keep track of them too.

That I totally agree with. I thought he was taking issue with the system as a whole though. I believe there is a very good reason to have these lists.
 
depends on who or what you pee on:mrgreen:
 
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