When you gotta go, you gotta go, part 2

[George K]

https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/lifestyle/nyc-mom-fined-for-4-year-olds-emergency-wee-in-the-park/

Last Saturday, Michiko Sasaki, 46, and her young son, Kobe, were having a nice time at the Battery Playscape in Battery Park City when the boy suddenly had to go to the restroom.

Sasaki took him to the closest restroom in the park, but it was plastered with a sign reading “No bathrooms.”

“My son was like ‘I really need to go – I’m going to pee my pants,’” Sasaki, a professional dancer and actress who lives in Washington Heights, told The Post. It was “an emergency.”

Desperate, the fast-acting mom shielded her little boy as he pulled down his pants to quickly urinate.

Moments later, five or six parks officers approached Sasaki, and, she said, “hounded” her.

“I was bewildered and very confused. [One] aggressively told me that this was illegal and not okay to use the bathroom outside,” said Sasaki.

[Mik]

Ridiculous. The letter versus the intent of the law. I had to stop on a circular freeway ramp one time for my girlfriend's two year old to pee. It was that or the back seat.

[George K]

The article goes on to explain that going to a restaurant or other facility was not an option - most restaurants' rest rooms are for patrons only.

[Mik]

In Battery Park you're quite a way away from any restroom a toddler could walk to.

[jon-nyc]

It’s so ridiculous you gotta wonder if the cops already had her number for one reason or another.

[Axtremus]

Did the kid just peed on public property or into a bottle or plastic bag? Just wondering whether the offense is the peeing itself or the offense or the dirtying of public property.

[Horace]

I would like to see a picture of the professional dancer and actress mother.

[LuFins Dad]

Probably a zero tolerance policy gone amuck.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in When you gotta go, you gotta go, part 2:

It’s so ridiculous you gotta wonder if the cops already had her number for one reason or another.

No, I'm becoming convinced that many people are constantly looking for something to be offended by, so they can complain to an authority figure of any kind.

I'm not sure if it's going to take something like a major war or depression to snap many of these fools back to Reality.

[Axtremus]

Maybe a power trip for some people in a position of authority. After a long boring stretch on the job, they found a sliver of opportunity to exercise their authority and took it.

[LuFins Dad]

@LuFins-Dad said in When you gotta go, you gotta go, part 2:

Probably a zero tolerance policy gone amuck.

If you’re going to bust a Black man for defecating in the park, you better bust the Asian kid, too!