CREEPING FASCISM UPDATE

Mom cited when toddler pees on sidewalk

(Thanks to The Perts)

Comments

[nursecindy]

I could understand this if he was twelve years old but two year old kids have a mind of their own. When one of my daughters was two she decided it would be okay to use the bathroom in the middle of a new car showroom while my husband and I were signing papers for a car. I'm still apologizing and offering to clean up for them.

[Jeff Meyerson]

I saw that yesterday. Use some discretion (and a brain, if any) officer. The kid was two. If Mom had peed on the sidewalk I could understand a ticket.

[Spiny Norman]

Well, Jeff, the law is the law: the sidewalk was peed on, so somebody's is getting a ticket.

/officer barbrady

[Spiny Norman]

somebody's is?

Yeah, something like that.

[nursecindy]

*switches Spiny Norman to decaf*

[ScottMGS]

First, potty trained at two? I'm guessing not. Second, I wonder how many not-open-to-the-public bathrooms she'd have to pass to find one they could use. People don't want their stores peed in they should make the necessary adjustments to policy. /grr

[Steve]

"City of Brotherly Love"
Doesn't say a think about liking and understanding kids.

[HogsAteMySister]

I hope the mom peed on the cop's foot.

[wingnut]

When my son was just past 2 and we had the potty training thing pretty well down I was outside with him where no facilities were available, no one was around so I showed him how to just pee on the ground, which he thought was a hoot. That night, in the house, he screams for me to come in the bathroom. He was proudly showing me that he figured out how to do this peeing on the ground thing in the house. On the floor. There is not a college degree available that aproaches the learning that comes with being a parent.

[XJ]

Personally, I'm glad the mom got a ticket. I lived in an apt. complex once where the downstairs neighbor let their toddler just whip it out and pee on the sidewalk all the time. It was freakin' DISGUSTING. And no one wants to step in pee, obviously.

Parents: They're children, not dogs. Dogs pee on the sidewalk (not cool either, personally), but kids are supposed to use diapers or the toilet.

[Mad Librarian]

I took care of the kids by myself A LOT when they were that age, and I don't remember having to resort to public urination except on one occasion, on a highway in rural Missouri where there were no towns for miles. Fortunately I was able to turn off on a deserted road called--no joke--Route PP. At least my son had an alibi.

[DrPat]

My mom had one of her 11 children decide to use the toilet display in a department store hardware section while she was was getting a couple of the others fitted for shoes in the shoe department.

She could have pled ignorance, but I he decided to let her know that the "potty" wouldn't flush. In a child's loud "I know what I'm doing" voice.

While still sitting drawers-down on the can.

[Omniskeptic]

Philly should just post "Curb your child" signs.