Forget murder and rape--here's a crime that REALLY deserves jail time!
Potty mouth! Woman cited for cursing at toilet
Pa. woman faces jail, fine for shouting profanities in her own home
CNBC's Lee Hawkins reports.
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Updated: 4:35 p.m. MT Oct 16, 2007
SCRANTON, Pa. - A Scranton woman who admitted shouted profanities at her overflowing toilet within earshot of a neighbor was cited for disorderly conduct, authorities said.
Dawn Herb could face up to 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $300.
“It doesn’t make any sense. I was in my house. It’s not like I was outside or drunk,” Herb told The Times-Tribune of Scranton. “The toilet was overflowing and leaking down into the kitchen and I was yelling (for my daughter) to get the mop.”
Herb doesn’t recall exactly what she said, but she admitted letting more than a few choice words fly near an open bathroom window Thursday night.
Her next-door neighbor, a city police officer who was off-duty at the time, asked her to keep it down, police said. When she continued, the officer called police.
Mary Catherine Roper, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in Philadelphia, took issue with the citation.
“You can’t prosecute somebody for swearing at a cop or a toilet,” she said.
Potty mouth! Woman cited for cursing at toilet
Pa. woman faces jail, fine for shouting profanities in her own home
CNBC's Lee Hawkins reports.
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Updated: 4:35 p.m. MT Oct 16, 2007
SCRANTON, Pa. - A Scranton woman who admitted shouted profanities at her overflowing toilet within earshot of a neighbor was cited for disorderly conduct, authorities said.
Dawn Herb could face up to 90 days in jail and a fine of up to $300.
“It doesn’t make any sense. I was in my house. It’s not like I was outside or drunk,” Herb told The Times-Tribune of Scranton. “The toilet was overflowing and leaking down into the kitchen and I was yelling (for my daughter) to get the mop.”
Herb doesn’t recall exactly what she said, but she admitted letting more than a few choice words fly near an open bathroom window Thursday night.
Her next-door neighbor, a city police officer who was off-duty at the time, asked her to keep it down, police said. When she continued, the officer called police.
Mary Catherine Roper, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in Philadelphia, took issue with the citation.
“You can’t prosecute somebody for swearing at a cop or a toilet,” she said.
3 comments:
actually its a law still that swearing is illegal in front of women and children. Its just never enforced. Probably should be. Our children would learn more respect.
oh....how weird and wild is that
I think the "swearing in front of women" thing is a throwback and sexist. I swear as much or more than most men I know. Though I don't do it in front of little kids, or publicly in general. Then again, I'm kind of weird. I smoke a bit, but I don't like to smoke in my house and I don't like sitting in the smoking section of a restaurant or going into a smoke filled bar.
I'd be a lifer if cussing in your own house was a crime!
Seriously--could they not find a real criminal to put in jail?
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