Is taking a piss in a public place bad?

Bartronilic · 29-03-2006 12:26AM #1

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* · 29-03-2006 12:27AM

Yes.

Steffano2002 · 29-03-2006 12:30AM

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 · 29-03-2006 12:32AM

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 · 29-03-2006 12:32AM

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 · 29-03-2006 12:32AM

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 · 29-03-2006 12:33AM

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 · 29-03-2006 12:33AM

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 · 29-03-2006 12:35AM

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 · 29-03-2006 12:37AM

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Atrocity · 29-03-2006 12:38AM

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

cooperguy · 29-03-2006 12:55AM

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 · 29-03-2006 12:59AM

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

ST* · 29-03-2006 01:04AM

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

Zhane · 29-03-2006 01:04AM

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 · 29-03-2006 01:07AM

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 · 29-03-2006 01:10AM

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 · 29-03-2006 01:15AM

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riptide · 29-03-2006 01:16AM

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 · 29-03-2006 01:17AM

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

Sarky · 29-03-2006 01:20AM

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

Rb · 29-03-2006 01:22AM

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 · 29-03-2006 01:23AM

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 · 29-03-2006 01:24AM

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

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 29-03-2006 01:34AM

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 · 29-03-2006 01:35AM

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 · 29-03-2006 02:10AM

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 · 29-03-2006 02:15AM

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 · 29-03-2006 02:26AM

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 · 29-03-2006 02:26AM

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 · 29-03-2006 02:41AM

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....

Is taking a piss in a public place bad?

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