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Old 10-25-2008, 07:33 PM
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Misdemeanor Illinois Obscene Conduct (public urination)


What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Illinois
I was charged with Obscene Conduct (public urination) in Charleston, Illinois, I was peeing in a hallway in a bar.
Can I be charged with public urination if it happened in a private bar? I can't make the court date, if I hire a lawyer can they appear on my behalf? Will this hurt my chances to get a job? What legal repercussions am I facing if I plead/am found guilty? Side note: I was arrested and plead guilty to public intox and public urination in Iowa some four months ago.
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Old 10-25-2008, 09:35 PM
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"In public" applies to private property that's open to entry / vision of the public. It covers bars. Use the mens room, or if you can't otherwise contain yourself, try depends.
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Old 10-26-2008, 02:27 AM
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Side note: I was arrested and plead guilty to public intox and public urination in Iowa some four months ago.
Are you still living in trees or what? You're a freaking pig!
Why the hell would you pee in the hallway of a bar? Do you think anyone wants to see or smell your secretions? Do you think whoever has to clean your filthy mess deserves the job of having to mop up pee, because you're too uncivilized to use a toilet?

Were you raised by wolves, or just stupid filthy parents who weren't up to the job?
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Old 10-26-2008, 09:59 AM
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I can't make the court date, if I hire a lawyer can they appear on my behalf?
You must appear or a warrant will be issued. It also makes things much easier if the judge decides to throw you in jail.
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Old 10-26-2008, 10:15 AM
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So this is your second offense for public urination in 4 months?
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Old 10-26-2008, 08:26 PM
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So this is your second offense for public urination in 4 months?
Yep and a different state as well

Two down, forty-eight to go

He's lucky he wasn't tagged for exposure
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Old 10-26-2008, 09:32 PM
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How could you urinate in a hallway. Seriously. I'll admit when there's no bathroom around I might run a safe distance away from the road and find a bush, but in a hallway in a public bar? That is disgusting. I work in an establishment comparable to this and it sucks to have to clean this kind of stuff up. I haven't cleaned up urine perse, but puke is just as bad (If not worse actually). They have bathrooms for that, probably at the end of the same damn hall you were peeing in. I hope you have to pay a huge fine, because you piss people who work in the restaurant business, like me, royally off.
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Old 10-26-2008, 11:59 PM
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Illinois
I was charged with Obscene Conduct (public urination) in Charleston, Illinois, I was peeing in a hallway in a bar.
Can I be charged with public urination if it happened in a private bar? I can't make the court date, if I hire a lawyer can they appear on my behalf? Will this hurt my chances to get a job? What legal repercussions am I facing if I plead/am found guilty? Side note: I was arrested and plead guilty to public intox and public urination in Iowa some four months ago.
Instead of peeing in the hallway of a private bar, why don't you pee in the hallway of your home. After doing so, come back and tell us what happened.

Can you see the OP at his next job interview. I can see the interviewer now..."Security...please escort Mr. Troy down the hall and out the door. Please make sure he keeps his zipper up".
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Old 10-27-2008, 01:46 PM
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Yep and a different state as well

Two down, forty-eight to go

He's lucky he wasn't tagged for exposure
**A: he really had nothing to expose.
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