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Even if this were a grown man.. how is peeing in public a jail sentence or probation?? Here you just get a fine. Or am I too european to understand?
Not only that put if you do it as an adult you will be put on the sexual offenders list for life. Yay America!
OK that's fucked up. Is that in all states?
Technically it can happen. Usually is doesn't. Peeing in public is technically indecent exposure if you are seen (which someone has to see you to catch you anyways). Indecent exposure is considered a sexual offence and can be tried as such.
But from what I've seen in my area of the US if you get caught pissing in public you will just get a fine unless you are a frequent repeat offender or there is some extenuating curcumstance like doing it in full view of other people. It's one of those things where technically it can get you labeled as a sex offender but it rarely actually does. Of course we have plenty of corrupt judges and that decision lies solely with them so it is always a possibility.
No. California recently got rid of or changed it though I forget the particulars other than it doesn't come with a sex offender charge now. Another state had also done much the same before California did. Michigan, I think?
European here. Public urination is illegal and a friend of mine was nearly charged for peeing on the side of the road on a country lane at the woods when we were kids (edit: around 16).
This whole thing is crazy though. 10 year olds need to pee.
There's also a big difference between doing it on a street and doing it in the country road. The main difference being you're not peeing on concrete.
Here in Germany it is illegal and you can get fined (no jailtime, as long as you dont try to show your dick to everyone).
But I have never heard of anyone getting fined for it, but I only know people who pee in bushes and shit, no one that is so trashy that they pee on buildings and stuff, because I would imagine that those cases are prosecuted much more stringently.
If you stop at any reststop at a highway or country road its also not very unlikely to see someone peeing into some bushes.
Dogs can pee wherever they want... No one gets arrested for dog pee