[QUOTE]If you’re looking for a way to traumatize your potty-training toddler, here’s a good one: the mother of a 3-year-old Oklahoma boy is stuck with a $2,500 fine after cops caught her young son urinating on their own lawn.Ashley Warden of rural Piedmont, OK says a police officer pulled up in front of their 2.5 acre property recently and wrote her a ticket for catching the child urinating on the family’s property.
[I]"Dillan pulled down his pants to pee outside. I guess and the cop pulled up and asked for my license and told me he was going to give me a ticket for public urination,"[/I] Warden recalls to KWTV News.
The boy’s grandmother, Jennifer Warden, says her plea with the police officer to reconsider was ignored.
[I]"I said really, he is 3 years old, and he said it doesn't matter,"[/I] Jennifer Warden, tells KWTV. [I]"[He said] It is public urination. I said we are on our property and he said it's in public view."[/I]
The Warden family attempted to file a complaint with the Piedmont Police Department but it was rejected by the force. Unwilling to fork over $2,500 grand to pay the fine, the family originally said they planned on going to court to fight the ticket and hopefully have something done about the office.
[I]“The outrage is not just the fact that it's a 3-year-old but many people see it as just an abuse of power, the officer was just writing a ticket because he could instead of handling it in a better way,” [/I]Warden tells ABC News.
When the family went public with the alleged abuse, the response was overwhelming, they say, citing thousands of comments posted on Internet forums and write-ups from the international media. Before long, that backlash prompted the police to issue an apology. Piedmont Police Chief Alex Oblein came to the Warden home and said he was sorry, the family tells ABC, and even offered to drop the charges. [I]“We told him we appreciated him coming and for all his help. He didn't have to come by the house. That was nice of him to do that,”[/I] Warden says.
ABC attempted to reach the cop that issued the ticket, Office Ken Qualls, but he did not answer requests for comments.
[I]"I don't know what's going to happen with him [Qualls] and I don't know if he's going to retaliate in some way,"[/I] Warden tells ABC[I]. "I would think not because the story has been so public but I kind of worry that it makes the police department look bad and they know all the vehicles we drive and where we live."[/I][/QUOTE]
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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No pee puns. No need to take the piss out of this one.
I am against the idea of having to shame the police into not abusing their power.
What a [I]dick.[/I]
I read that as "Toddler pees on mom, mom fined $2,500"
Another example of the extremely ambitious police abusing their power.
[QUOTE=mastermaul;38392266]I read that as "Toddler pees on mom, mom fined $2,500"[/QUOTE]
Hey, nice!
urine trouble lil' kid
Public urination? Think of the children... no wait
That's pretty pissy of the cops, 2K for simple yellow liquid on a lawn? Damn crazy.
Sounds like making someone's grass wet is serious business.
I read this as "Toddler pees in pond, mom finds $2,500"
WHY
Someone gonna get sued and someone gonna get fired...
[QUOTE=IPK;38392975]Someone gonna get sued and someone gonna get fired...[/QUOTE]
or not if you read the article
[QUOTE=znk666;38392960]Sounds like making someone's grass wet is serious business.[/QUOTE]
Not just that, the cop wrote up a ticket because the kid was pissing on the kid's mom's property.
This is seriously fucked up. It's just a toddler.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;38393130]This is seriously fucked up. It's just a toddler.[/QUOTE]
It's just urinating in public.
[QUOTE=avon43;38392973]I read this as "Toddler pees in pond, mom finds $2,500"
WHY[/QUOTE]
That sounds like a mnemonic phrase.
What, if you pee against a police car here you get a 60€ fine. How the hell do you guys pay 2500?
Atleast the police got fucked in the end.
[QUOTE=taipan;38394782]What, if you pee against a police car here you get a 60€ fine. How the hell do you guys pay 2500?[/QUOTE]
60€
that's 5$ for the towel and good cleaner
$2500? for pee that'll not effect a lawn... But if you liter that's only a 50$ fine.
pretty obvious America is insane. You know.
[QUOTE=taipan;38394782]What, if you pee against a police car here you get a 60€ fine. How the hell do you guys pay 2500?[/QUOTE]
A lot of legal costs and lawsuits are overly inflated in US. Look at medical care if you don't have insurance. They charge way over what it costs to perform the procedure. That's why US has so many people who have debt.
[QUOTE=itisjuly;38394959]A lot of legal costs and lawsuits are overly inflated in US. Look at medical care if you don't have insurance. They charge way over what it costs to perform the procedure. [B]That's why US has so many people who have debt.[/B][/QUOTE]
Not really.
The officer should have paid the kid because he was actually improving the growth ratio of the lawn by providing nutrients to it!
[QUOTE=retroboy4;38395060]Not really.[/QUOTE]
Okay then
The cop is an asshole for doing this, how the hell would this kid know not to do this?
I bet what's going on is there is an order from city leaders to raise money in any way they can. The cops probably have been told to write tickets on anything and everything they can. This cop saw an opportunity and went for it. Times are tough and cities need money. If you can't raise taxes, because the public won't support it, you raise money through fees, fines, traffic tickets, and so on.
NEXT TIME IT'LL BE $5000 YOU TINY BASTARD!
~That Cop
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