Family Spray Urine On Lampposts to Lure Back Lost Dog

The Baltesz family is using a radical method to get their runaway dog to come back home. The family is marking trees, lampposts and the local streets with their own urine in the hopes it will lure their Labrador, Simon, back. Having presumably tried all methods that didn't involve pouring pee out of a soda bottle, the family decided this approach was the best. Mrs Baltesz told the Bristol Evening Post, "I know it sounds bizarre and I'm embarrassed to mention it but it makes sense if you think about it. Simon may pick up our scent because dogs have an incredibly powerful sense of smell. Despite having two other dogs, the house is so quiet without him."

New legal ground

[Kligat]

Does it have to be expelled out the genitals in public to count as public urination, or can it be saved up and discarded like dumping a bucket of melted ice into a parking lot? Laws on the books in my state define the severity of the penalty for littering as dependent on volume and weight; does the entire solution count as the pollutant, or just the solvent after the water solute has evaporated?

I'm sure somewhere out there is a lawyer eager to attack this, not for anything against the family's actions or an

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[RockDoctor]

Does it have to be expelled out the genitals in public to count as public urination,

Consider the case of a hypothetical catheterised or fistulated person, voiding their wastes in a public space. They don't expose their genitals to the outside world, so there's nothing there for people to object to. So the offence would be one of public littering (though there may be specific issues in English law about the disposal of human waste, but that doesn't stop people throwing used nappies into the bins in a park, s

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[curmudgeon99]

It all depends on the technique. To be considered true public urination, the pee-er must be standing with at least one leg in the air, with a look of bliss on their face, mouth agape, and that steam must rise from the wee as it spreads on the ground and transfers its heat into the ground. If it comes from a jar--unless it has just been made and is still warm so that it steams, does not qualify.

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