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I grew up in a rural area, and sometimes find 'city logic' amusing. Need to urinate? Pull over, get out, and water the grass. This is older than time, and a

I grew up in a rural area, and sometimes find 'city logic' amusing. Need to urinate? Pull over, get out, and water the grass. This is older than time, and a non-issue. Really. It isn't an issue to me. Defecation is obviously in another category. Peeing in a bottle is also a non-issue. As far as I am concerned, if a woman can breast-feed in public, why can people not urinate into a container inside a car? (Both are body parts with sexual, and non-sexual purposes) And women can do so too, with the aid of such things as this; https://www.amazon.com/Standing-Resistant-Urination-Portable-Reusable/dp/B07YYGVTZK https://www.amazon.com/Standing-Resistant-Urination-Portable... To take a step back, are astronauts the next "put out" class? Tank drivers on patrol? Park rangers? Long haul truckers? Virtually all outdoor, in the country type jobs? And more oddly, at first all I heard about was urination in bottles. Then massive outrage did not appear. Now defecation seems to be added? Note: Amazon sucks donkey balls, but let's address the true suckage, not what I see as a non-issue.

giantg2 6y ago
"Need to urinate? Pull over, get out, and water the grass." Yet even many rural places have laws against it (usually at the state level). It's just enforced less strictly outside of the towns and cities.
- bbarnett 6y ago
  It's often unenforceable, due to rural driving distances, with potentially zero alternatives. (eg, are you just going to do it in your pants, over the car's seat??) I'd even call it a human rights issue, when no alternative exists. Here, the key is to leave the passenger door open, and do it concealed. Then, silly usages of public exposure law attempts cannot be deployed. Other method are to hike into the bushes, but with ticks and mosquitoes, many refuse to.
  - LorenPechtel 6y ago
    I looked at the law on this locally--there is a necessity defense, if you gotta go and are as discreet as practical you're in the clear. Ticks and mosquitoes are basically a non-issue here, but finding a bush isn't always the easiest.
  - giantg2 6y ago
    It won't stop them from trying to enforce it and you ending up in court. I know a guy who took a leak in an alley on his walk home from the bar at 1am. He's now a registered sex offender because that alley was across from a playground, even though no children were present and it was dark out. The only thing my experiences have taught me is that the 'justice' system will do everything it can to win, even when it makes no sense. Eventually they will screw over enough people that nobody will be left to support it.

giantg2 6y ago

"Need to urinate? Pull over, get out, and water the grass." Yet even many rural places have laws against it (usually at the state level). It's just enforced less strictly outside of the towns and cities.

bbarnett 6y ago
It's often unenforceable, due to rural driving distances, with potentially zero alternatives. (eg, are you just going to do it in your pants, over the car's seat??) I'd even call it a human rights issue, when no alternative exists. Here, the key is to leave the passenger door open, and do it concealed. Then, silly usages of public exposure law attempts cannot be deployed. Other method are to hike into the bushes, but with ticks and mosquitoes, many refuse to.
- LorenPechtel 6y ago
  I looked at the law on this locally--there is a necessity defense, if you gotta go and are as discreet as practical you're in the clear. Ticks and mosquitoes are basically a non-issue here, but finding a bush isn't always the easiest.
- giantg2 6y ago
  It won't stop them from trying to enforce it and you ending up in court. I know a guy who took a leak in an alley on his walk home from the bar at 1am. He's now a registered sex offender because that alley was across from a playground, even though no children were present and it was dark out. The only thing my experiences have taught me is that the 'justice' system will do everything it can to win, even when it makes no sense. Eventually they will screw over enough people that nobody will be left to support it.