Mom Gets $2,500 Ticket After Son, 3, Urinates In Front Yard

[1morethan8]

I believe our country is just about gone to hell-o.

[url="http://www.newson6.com/story/20010769/three-year-old-piemont-boy-gets-2500-ticket-for-peeing-in-his-front-yard"]http://www.newson6.c...-his-front-yard[/url]

[xRUSTYx]

Stupid, plain & simple.

I hope the judge throws this stupid citation out.

[vontar]

Hell, in this day and age, I am surprised the 3 year old is not being charged as a sex offender for displaying himself in public. Guess he he gave them a break.

[DaveS]

Cop must have been bored. I hope it gets thrown out.

Dave S

[Tempest455]

A little shocked at that in OK. If it were CA, not at all.

[TMF]

Haha, this is how we potty trained our son. Didn't know we were being criminals. Ugh, this cop needs to get the stick removed from his butt.

[DaveTN]

The woman lied.

She said the Police Department refused to take her complaint; that is an outright lie. Investigators took a complaint and interviewed both her and her daughter. The Chief of Police stopped by her house, apologized to her and told her the charges were dropped and he opened an investigation into the incident.

What more could anyone possibly ask for?

Will they fire the cop? Of course they won’t; it doesn’t rise nearly to that level. But he may you more discretion next time.

[vontar]

[quote name='DaveTN' timestamp='1352765589' post='844537']
The woman lied.

She said the Police Department refused to take her complaint; that is an outright lie. Investigators took a complaint and interviewed both her and her daughter. The Chief of Police stopped by her house, apologized to her and told her the charges were dropped and he opened an investigation into the incident.

What more could anyone possibly ask for?

Will they fire the cop? Of course they won’t; it doesn’t rise nearly to that level. But he may you more discretion next time.
[/quote]

Where did you get that info? Maybe it happened after this news broke as that page was updated on [i]Updated: Nov 06, 2012 12:22 PM EST . [/i]

[TMF]

[quote name='DaveTN' timestamp='1352765589' post='844537']The woman lied.

She said the Police Department refused to take her complaint; that is an outright lie. Investigators took a complaint and interviewed both her and her daughter. The Chief of Police stopped by her house, apologized to her and told her the charges were dropped and he opened an investigation into the incident.

What more could anyone possibly ask for?

Will they fire the cop? Of course they won’t; it doesn’t rise nearly to that level. But he may you more discretion next time.[/quote]

Well the PD should have responded to the reporters. The article said they wouldn't respond so we only have her side in this story. No matter what, an office issuing a citation for a potty training 3 year old is ridiculous. I've had to let my son relieve himself in public before. When a potty training kid has to go, he has to go or mess himself. I would be a very ugly person about the situation if I was being held criminally liable because my son had to piss, whether or not I got a belated apology, to include contacting the press to make this officer look like the douche nozzle he is.

[1morethan8]

"What more could anyone possibly ask for?"

Maybe a little more common sense?

[Garufa]

[quote name='DaveTN' timestamp='1352765589' post='844537']
The woman lied.

She said the Police Department refused to take her complaint; that is an outright lie. Investigators took a complaint and interviewed both her and her daughter. The Chief of Police stopped by her house, apologized to her and told her the charges were dropped and he opened an investigation into the incident.

What more could anyone possibly ask for?

Will they fire the cop? Of course they won’t; it doesn’t rise nearly to that level. But he may you more discretion next time.
[/quote]

Care to cite a source for that information?

[vontar]

Garufa, I could learn to be a bit more PC from you.

[DaveTN]

[quote name='Garufa' timestamp='1352766667' post='844547']


Care to cite a source for that information?
[/quote]
I just did a Google news search when I saw that the woman said the PD refused to take her complaint. I figured that was BS. You don’t refuse to take a citizens complaint; you might mark it “unfounded”, but you don’t refuse to take one.

I’m not sticking up for the cop; it was a stupid thing to do. But it was a violation or it wasn’t. If it was a violation there is nothing to investigate; if it wasn’t then I would guess there will be some disciplinary action with some training.

[Oh Shoot]

Police chief did throw out the ticket, and did apologize to her, according to this:

http://www.kctv5.com/story/20018867/mom-gets-2500-ticket-after-son-3-urinates-in-own-yard

- OS

[daddyo]

But, oh, gee whiz whillikers, cops have such a HARD job.

[vontar]

[quote name='OhShoot' timestamp='1352767527' post='844560']
Police chief did throw out the ticket, and did apologize to her, according to this:

[url="http://www.kctv5.com/story/20018867/mom-gets-2500-ticket-after-son-3-urinates-in-own-yard"]http://www.kctv5.com...tes-in-own-yard[/url]

- OS
[/quote]

Cool deal, and note that is dated after the original on
[i]Posted: Nov 06, 2012 2:54 PM EST [/i] [i]Updated: Nov 07, 2012 6:57 PM EST[/i]

[Garufa]

[quote name='DaveTN' timestamp='1352767338' post='844559']
I just did a Google news search when I saw that the woman said the PD refused to take her complaint. I figured that was BS. You don’t refuse to take a citizens complaint; you might mark it “unfounded”, but you don’t refuse to take one.

I’m not sticking up for the cop; it was a stupid thing to do. But it was a violation or it wasn’t. If it was a violation there is nothing to investigate; if it wasn’t then I would guess there will be some disciplinary action with some training.
[/quote]

Unfortunately, we must search out the truth ourselves because the news does not follow up on the stories they post. I have little patience for that.

Thanks for the update.

[RobertNashville]

Well gee...color me stunned.

We've got people who are convicted felons (of serious crimes including violent ones) walking the streets so they can keep committing crimes but at least we are being protected from three year old's who pee in their front yard. What a great country we live in!