While in Municipal Traffic Court dealing with a minute traffic citation (operating a vehicle in the state of Michigan as a Michigan resident with New Mexico plates) I shared the company of, dare I say – some pretty sketch homies.
Best of all was the guy in front of me, an older man somewhere around the age of 40. He was wearing a well worn tan colored suit coat over a greasy dark blue button up shirt, with tattered and lightly stained blue jeans that came down just over of his tan leather work boots. His gray hair was parted neatly to the side – in stark contrast to a scruffy mid-length beard. Think Hobo with Combed Hair (HCH).
When called to the bench the Judge asked HCH:
“You’ve been cited for urinating on an officer, how do you plead?”
How the hell does one even begin to go about urinating on an officer, let alone getting close enough with your pants down? HCH paused, clearly thinking hard about what his plea would be.
“Ugh, guilty.”
The Judge leaned in a little closer.
“You realize that if you plead guilty you will be taken to jail? Also, you realize that Officer [average last name] is not present to defend this unusual citation.”
To which HCH (this was awesome) said:
“Uggggghhhhhh, not guilty.”
“Dismissed.”
I was less lucky, just over a hundred dollar fine. Ouch. I should have pleaded uggggghhhhhhh not guilty!
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I recall warning Justin about exactly this problem.
Pshhh, no one warned me.
Well apparently I need to warn everyone about not urinating on officers, too.
You hear that, Justin?
Apparently they care more about this the further north you go. Ill check into Indiana's thoughts on urinating on officers.
I got my Boy Scout Urinating in Public Badge here in NM, who'd thought that its illegal in Michigan.
yep - urinating in public is illigal here, aparently urinating on an officer is an arrestable offence.
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