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When you gotta go, you gotta go, part 2

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  • George KG Offline
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    George K
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    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.

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    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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    • MikM Away
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      Mik
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      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.

      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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      • George KG Offline
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        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.

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • MikM Away
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          Mik
          wrote on last edited by
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          In Battery Park you're quite a way away from any restroom a toddler could walk to.

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          “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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          • jon-nycJ Offline
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            #5

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

            They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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            • AxtremusA Offline
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              #6

              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.

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

                Education is extremely important.

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                • LuFins DadL Offline
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                  Probably a zero tolerance policy gone amuck.

                  The Brad

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                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

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

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                    @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.

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                    • AxtremusA Offline
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                      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.

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                      • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

                        Probably a zero tolerance policy gone amuck.

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                        @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!

                        The Brad

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