Oklahoma Cop Tickets Mom For 3-Year-Old’s ‘Public Urination’ Outside His Family Home; Fine Comes to $2,500.

New York Daily News reports:

A hefty fine for such a wee pee. A 3-year-old boy got his mother a $2,500 ticket in Oklahoma for going pee-pee in his own front yard. ”I said really, he is 3 years old, and (the officer) said it doesn’t matter – it’s public urination,” grandmother Jennifer Warden said.

Talk about a big-ticket bathroom break!

An Oklahoma mom got fined thousands of dollars when her 3-year-old son pulled down his pants to urinate on the family’s property. The potty-training toddler’s effort to not wet himself earned his mother a $2,500 ticket, the family said.

The boy, Dillan, was playing in their front yard on a rural road in Piedmont when nature called.

“Dillan pulled down his pants to pee outside, I guess, and the cop pulled up and asked for my license and told me he was going to give me a ticket for public urination,” Ashley Warden, the boy’s mother told CBS Oklahoma City affiliate News 9.

The officer told the family that just because the child is only 3 does not get them off the hook, according to Dillan’s grandmother, Jennifer Warden.

“I said really, he is 3 years old, and (the officer) said it doesn’t matter – it’s public urination,” Warden said.

The same police officer allegedly parks down the street from their 2.5 acres of property every day. When asked why he does this, the officer responded that it is a “public street and he wants to, so he can,” according to Warden.

“I am disappointed that the officer thinks,” she continued, “what he needs to do with my tax dollars is sitting and harassing our family.”

The family intends to challenge the ticket because, they claim, the boy did not actually finish the act, reported News 9.

The police department did not return the Daily News’ request for an interview.

2012-11-07 20:19:38

Source: http://www.copblock.org/23355/3-yr-old-gets-2500-ticket/