When You Gotta Go

The President of Baltimore's City Council has issued a call for stiffer penalties against drinking and urination in public to combat the outburst of lewd behavior in several neighborhoods aswarm with drunks after the bars close for the evening at 2am. wants misbehaving late-night revelers to pay a steep price for public drunkenness.

"We want you to be responsible for your actions. We don't want you breaking our car windows, urinating on people's property, defecating on people's property and just destroying the community by being loud and obnoxious."

Another tactic would have been to keep the bars open around the clock, so the revelers stay inside their haunts or to erect public urinals for the needy. I stopped drinking in Manhattan since my bladder can't last the subway trip from the Lower East Side to Fort Greene in Brooklyn without getting off at the Jay Street with the desperate urge to drain the monster. The fine for such a crime in NYC is about $20-50. Baltimore regards the offense with much more severity.

The current fine for public urination is $150. The president of the city council proposes raising the fine to $750.

$750 for a wizz.

Faced with such a draconian measure I'd pee in my pants.

Of course several bloggers from the right blamed the N-word president for the lack of civility exhibited by Baltimore's boozers.

"You being one of those 'Chocolate Cities', one can only imagine the NIGHTMARES of daily life. Failing Schools, Drugs, Gangs, Empty Storefronts and Boarded up Factories. Prostitution, NO JOBS from your Boy in the White House, 90% of kids with NO FATHER in the house. AND, people going pee."

"I worked all my life to pay off my house I don't want to have it made worthless by an out of control property tax regime and cops who won't or can't do their job and keep the crooks and gangsters from having a free reign. WAKE UP BALTIMORE BEFORE YOU DON'T have any rights."

After pee, the deluge.