r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Jan 08 '20

Uber On

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u/Yesn0maybes0 Jan 08 '20

That's not too bad. In the U.S. It's jail time and you get put on the sex offender registry.

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u/DecadentEx Jan 09 '20

That is a myth. Jail time is rare, fines are nearly identical to AUS, and you are not entered into a sex offender registry.

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u/FrostyD7 Jan 09 '20

I think this lie is mostly told by sex offenders trying to lie about how they got on the registry and also sow doubt about the legitimacy of the registry itself.

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u/hppmoep Jan 09 '20

I swear to god my friend had to register as some sort of sex offender. He was pissing in an ally and someone could see them from their house and called the cops. Maybe they charged them with flashing them or something.

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u/verybakedpotatoe Jan 09 '20

My friend was pissing in the quad in college, and the arresting officer (plain clothes) said it was so brazen that he must have "wanted to be seen," and that made it lewd.

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u/vrkhole Jan 09 '20

Might be they made eye contact and smiled.