Is taking a piss in a public place bad?

Bartronilic

me no thinky so. I'm talking about late at night when you HAVE TO, doing it down a dark allley or into a bin (quite common) WHICH I NEVER DID. My friend thinks that you can be fined if you're caught doing it but I disagree, I mean it's late at night in town - what about the fighting and stuff? DO they honestly care about people taking a piss?

And my over the top paranoid friend is afraid that he was caught pissing in a bin by a cctv camera 2 months ago ha! It's fun to wind him up about it because the police hardly care about what they see at 3am 2 months ago right? right? I think the bin is a bit too far since people would have to clean it out

ST*

Yes.

Steffano2002

I frown upon peeing in the street and avoid doing it if possible. But when it's 5 A.M, your drunk, dying for a pee and waiting for a cab for the past 2 hours in Dublin City... Hell I'd pee an a Gard!

Well no I wouldn't actually but you know what I mean!

Chucky the tree

Done it myself, down a lane though. I'd most fellas have done it. And yes you can get fined, and people have been fined/brought to court over it.

Sarky

It's perfectly possible to go to the toilet before you leave the pub, you know. Honestly. I do it all the time. It does, however, require a small amount of thinking, so it's obviously not for everyone. But y'know, I'm just throwing it out there. Y'know. Just in case.

constitutionus

ordinarally id say yes.

but considering dublin county councill systematically closed down every public toilet in the city i'd have to say no.

Rb

Into a bin?wtf?That's disgusting.

I think it's unacceptable but sometimes (in desperation) it can't be avoided, but doing it in a bin is an absolute joke.

Zaph

It's not only bad, it's illegal, however I know the fine used to be laughably small - £2. Don't know if it's been updated anytime recently.

Photi

I wouldn't expect a child to do it, let alone a fully-grown adult. I agree with Sarky, surely people can control themselves to some degree.

Mimikyu

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Atrocity

I like to go during the day. preferably in front of small children. What's the problem? Are we really that vain?

cooperguy

Sarky wrote:

It's perfectly possible to go to the toilet before you leave the pub, you know. Honestly. I do it all the time. It does, however, require a small amount of thinking, so it's obviously not for everyone. But y'know, I'm just throwing it out there. Y'know. Just in case.

But if your waiting two hours for a taxi its not that simple is it? I dont normally do it and try to avoid it but if you really have to and your discreet about it, its hardly the end of the world!

The_Minister

Its illegal. (my brother saw two guys end up in a garda car over it.)

ST*

To my knowledge it is illegal to urinate in public, but it is in fact legal to empty your bowels..

Zhane

Seen a guy pissing in the millenium walkway (is that what its called?) by jervis two days ago, this was like quater to 8 at night, still bright. Then saw a guy taking a feckin dump in abby street. What the hell are wrong with these people! Its digusting like!

Bartronilic

That is disgusting! quarter to eight?! f I have to i ONLY do it after 3am and really discreetely. My bin friend has a right to be worried - for his stae of mind (1 year old mind!)

Atrocity

Then saw a guy taking a feckin dump in abby street. What the hell are wrong with these people! Its digusting like!

ha ha

maybe it was Bill Cullen gettin rid of some penny apples

Mimikyu

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riptide

Shock_treatment wrote:

To my knowledge it is illegal to urinate in public, but it is in fact legal to empty your bowels..

I think thats correct.

I'd avoid urinating in public, but when you have to you have. your sphincter muscles may not hold out, and you'd piss yourself and the street... so the lesser of 2 evils, down a lane.! BTW, i seen a guy pissing on the street in Rathmines. A garda van took the corner and spotted him. They quickly reversed, threw him into the back of the van and hauled him into the cop shop just down the road.

simu

Yes, unless you're in the country. They do things differently there.

Sarky

In Ballinasloe, it's illegal NOT to urinate in public.

Rb

Bartronilic wrote:

That is disgusting! quarter to eight?! f I have to i ONLY do it after 3am and really discreetely. My bin friend has a right to be worried - for his stae of mind (1 year old mind!)

That's some good editing of your original post you did there, bit afraid people will think negatively of you?

Oh and on topic: It's even worse if it's a girl doing it. I remember back in the day when I went to Old Wesley and you'd see girls hunched down around the corner. This was early in the evening. Mind you, that's tame compared to what I hear they're at these days in Wesley.

Bartronilic

riptide wrote:

I think thats correct.

I'd avoid urinating in public, but when you have to you have. your sphincter muscles may not hold out, and you'd piss yourself and the street... so the lesser of 2 evils, down a lane.! BTW, i seen a guy pissing on the street in Rathmines. A garda van took the corner and spotted him. They quickly reversed, threw him into the back of the van and hauled him into the cop shop just down the road.

Middle of the street is bad and all but with all the fighting i see going unnoticed i find it amazong they have time for pissers!

drdre

i think it is really bad ,as remember its your country and you are making it more dirty and filthy

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Sarky wrote:

It's perfectly possible to go to the toilet before you leave the pub, you know. Honestly. I do it all the time. It does, however, require a small amount of thinking, so it's obviously not for everyone. But y'know, I'm just throwing it out there. Y'know. Just in case.

It's beer. You can go three times before you leave the pub and still need to go half an hour later. And at peak times when everything's closing, it takes a lot longer than half an hour to get home.

Faith

It's disgusting. Absolutely foul. I was walking home in Edinburgh one evening at about 12am and there was a bunch of guys talking a piss outside the National Museum of Scotland, just off the main street. And I live on a lane here and it frequently reeks to high heavens of urine. I abhor it. But I do acknowledge that sometimes it just can't be helped, but do it where there's no houses around, PLEASE.

Bartronilic

As a matter of interest, that cctv operations unit - if they arrive at a scene of fighting or whatever and nobody is there are the people still pursued? are they pursued for months? or are cctv cameras only reviewed when people complain and evidence is needed?

blu_sonic

A guy i know was arrested for taking a leek in carlow on a thursday night. so it is against the law and you can be nicked for it, but being descreat about it is i suppose a bit better, what would people think if it was a girl going for a piss on the street?

the_syco

If I totally scuttered drunk, I'll pee into the nearest place where no-one is looking. Facing the other way, even (once I'm not facing the wind).

If I'm not drunk, I find a tree, or a wall (not a house wall, though). Once its hidden, its all good.

Esel

IANAL, but AFAIK, it's all about indecent exposure. That's why females taking a pee are OK. They are not exposing anything.

Also, AFAIK, the urge to crap cannot be suppressed. Ergo, no foul.

So, to be safe (i.e. if you really have got to go, and are 'under observation', find a secluded spot (between two parked cars may do), drop your trews, squat, and let the river flow. If you are challenged, be sure not to wave anything, and claim that you felt the 'real' call of nature. Be sure to let your solicitor explain why sh!t didn't happen.

Your mileage may vary.

[edit] 'flow' was 'go'

jimmycrackcorm

Apparently from what I've read in court reports in the media, the technical term is called "Being caught short". Makes you wonder what being caught long is....

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Dave!

hmmm... sometimes it can't be avoided unfortunately. I realise it's disgusting, but so is peeing in your pants!

BTW, was p*ssing in public one of the offenses that's been down-graded to warnable rather than getting a fine or whatever? Y'know the bill that went through with all the minor offenses (that cannabis possession was originally on, but drugs are evil so that was removed)

R-KEANE

I agree that at times it cant be avoided and I've had to do it myself. But its best not to take the piss if you ignore the pun. One guy started pissing in the middle of a queue to get into a nightclub out onto the street one night. All the girls walking by throwing him compliments for his man hood. Needless to say this was Ice nightclub and god only knows why I was going in there in the first place. Maybe because it was about 7 years ago and I was new to Dublin

Oral Slang

I was driving past the entrance to Mount Carmel Hospital yesterday at 4.45 pm and there was a guy pissing up against the wall. Whatever about in the middle of the night in a secluded place, but this was in the sunshine on a main road..
ffs, it was disgusting & right outside a hospital! Everyone driving & walking by was staring at him!

rubadub

esel wrote:

That's why females taking a pee are OK. They are not exposing anything.

Me & my mates spotted a nice shaven kunt on dun laoghaire pier during the festival one year.
I was caught by guards twice doing it and just had a light warning. Somebody said 2 guys went in the garda car, no doubt the fools started acting up and giving lip.

Where is a homeless person supposed to piss? Are there 24hr free public toilets in every town in Ireland?

Dizzyblabla

I remember in London they had urinals in the middle of the street? maybe I was just drunk, but I'm pretty sure they did, big blue ones that the guys could stand into?? anyone from London who can back me up??

R-KEANE

Dizzyblabla wrote:

I remember in London they had urinals in the middle of the street? maybe I was just drunk, but I'm pretty sure they did, big blue ones that the guys could stand into?? anyone from London who can back me up??

are you sure that wasnt a swimming pool? haha

MorningStar

You have to do it in Dublin due to lack of public toilets. Where are you meant to go? After 6 pints I go about every 20-30 minutes it takes longer than that to get a taxi.
In some cities with sense they put out night urinals to deal with the problem. London might do it now.

By law bus drivers are allowed wee on the back tire in public.

Downtime

Bartronilic wrote:

me no thinky so. I'm talking about late at night when you HAVE TO, doing it down a dark allley or into a bin (quite common) WHICH I NEVER DID. My friend thinks that you can be fined if you're caught doing it but I disagree, I mean it's late at night in town - what about the fighting and stuff? DO they honestly care about people taking a piss?

My mate got arrested for doing one. Admittedly it was outside harcourt street garda station. Ended up in court and got a slap on the wrist

StupidLikeAFox

Dizzyblabla wrote:

I remember in London they had urinals in the middle of the street? maybe I was just drunk, but I'm pretty sure they did, big blue ones that the guys could stand into?? anyone from London who can back me up??

They have that in Wrexham anyway, its actually a really good idea, plastic removable ones.

Also if your there and caught taking a wee on the streets, your handed a mop and bucket and told to clean it up, or else spend a night in jail. Think of the shame of moppin up your wee with loadsa people walking by....

el tel

If you're a man, the world is your urinal

Chris P Duck

Shock_treatment wrote:

To my knowledge it is illegal to urinate in public, but it is in fact legal to empty your bowels..

It is illegal to piss on the street, but not to have a crap. This is true. But has any of you ever had a crap without pissing. Was this the party trick of the person who made the rule

po0k

http://blogs.boards.ie/syxpak/2005/10/07/social-experiment/

R-KEANE

SyxPak wrote:

http://blogs.boards.ie/syxpak/2005/10/07/social-experiment/

after a feed of beer, there is no way i'd be able to aim it right into the bottle without showering the merc. Also, leaving it on top of the car was pretty disgusting. someone had to pick it up and dispose of it. i know that no matter how drunk i get, i'd never do that

Loomis

Sarky wrote:

It's perfectly possible to go to the toilet before you leave the pub, you know. Honestly. I do it all the time. It does, however, require a small amount of thinking, so it's obviously not for everyone. But y'know, I'm just throwing it out there. Y'know. Just in case.

Likin' your work Sarky...

Yes they do care about it even thoough the bigger tossers fight while all you do is urinate in public. And yes you can be fined. And rightly so. It's retarded, 'cause like Sarky pointed out, the alternative requires some thinking.

Furry Burger

R-KEANE wrote:

after a feed of beer, there is no way i'd be able to aim it right into the bottle without showering the merc. Also, leaving it on top of the car was pretty disgusting. someone had to pick it up and dispose of it. i know that no matter how drunk i get, i'd never do that

its easier than you think, you just need to cover your japs eye with the bottle and you cant miss!

R-KEANE

Furry Burger wrote:

its easier than you think, you just need to cover your japs eye with the bottle and you cant miss!

oh yes you can. when i'm drunk and trying to concentrate, i stumble, lose all ability to focus and eventually, forget what i'm doing. sober, then i might not have a problem

el tel

SyxPak wrote:

http://blogs.boards.ie/syxpak/2005/10/07/social-experiment/

The maximum capacity of an average human bladder is around 500ml.

Furry Burger

R-KEANE wrote:

oh yes you can. when i'm drunk and trying to concentrate, i stumble, lose all ability to focus and eventually, forget what i'm doing. sober, then i might not have a problem

try using the bottle off a club source drink they have a really wide opening you can get it all they way in then...you probably walk along while pis$ing

R-KEANE

Furry Burger wrote:

try using the bottle off a club source drink they have a really wide opening you can get it all they way in then...you probably walk along while pis$ing

well i'll be giving this a miss anyway. couldnt just leave it on the street. if i bring it with me then i might forget what i did with it and think i've got beer left. best just to go in someones garden.