summons in nyc question ??? To pee or not to pee

[alxscrz2]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:04pm

Lol I need some help. Well yesterday I got out of a club and I was a bit tipsy and had to pee real bad. So I peed by my friends car and a cop stoped me and gave me a pink slip thingy that says summons. It has a court date on it but doesn't say how much I owe. So can anyone please help me and tell me how much will the fine be or if I can go to jail for this ??? This is the 1st time I ever did this
Updated On: 1/19/08 at 10:04 PM

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:08pm

WoW.

Was this at least after seeing a Broadway show?

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:15pm

Did you give him your ID? I'm assuming they know your name and address?

If not, throw it away and ignore it.

If so, don't worry...you're not going to jail.

Find out how much the fine is. I think sometimes on the back of the summons, there is a chart that tells you how much each offense is. I think the one I got does.

You'll probably end up having to pay like $200.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:20pm

I got a summons and had to appear in criminal court many years ago. What an experience that was-but that's a whole nother story.

Anyway, each criminal is told how much they owe when it's their turn to appear before the judge and state their case. I can't believe I only owed $10. But this was a long time ago. Fees might have gone up.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:29pm

Kate:
oh Nicky, Nicky, Bad News.

nicky:
what's The Matter Kate?

kate:
i Can't Go With You To The Phish Concert At The Aquarium.

nicky:
oh No, I Was Looking Forward To That!

kate:
me Too.

nicky:
oh, Why Can't You Come?

kate:
i Got Jury Duty.

nicky:
jury Duty?

kate:
mm Hm.

nicky:
aw, Kate, You Don't Have To Go To Jury Duty.

kate:
yes I Do. I Got This Summons In The Mail, It Says I Have To Go.

nicky:
oh, What Summons?

kate:
this One.

nicky:
no. What Summons?

kate:
this One.

nicky:
no Kate You Don't Understand: Tear It Up And Throw It Away.

kate:
what?

nicky:
throw It Away, Throw It Away! Tear It Up And Throw It Away.
and Go About Your Day!

kate:
oh, I Can't Do That! This Is An Official Summons.

nicky:
oh! An Official Summons. Well, Why Didn't You Say So?
tear It Up And Throw It Away!

kate:
just. Tear It Up?

nicky:
yeah! And Throw It Away!
tear It Up And Throw It Away, So You And I Can Play.

kate:
but, Isn't It My Civic Duty?

nicky:
aw! Who Gives A Doody? The Government Employees Already Know,
for Many Reasons Many People Just Won't Show.
a Piece Of Mail's An Easy Thing To Overlook, So Just Like The Airlines, They Overbook!

kate: Oh!

both:
tear It Up And Throw It Away! Throw It Away! Throw It Away!
tear It Up And Throw It Away,

nicky:
it's Perfectly Okay.

kate:
ah! Oh But Wait A Minute, Wait A Minute.
it Says Here The Penalty Is 30 Days In Jail.

nicky:
kate! No One's Ever Gone To Jail! Gone To Jail! Gone To Jail!
have You Ever Heard Of Anyone Who's Gone To Jail,

kate:
oh! 'cause Something Got Lost In The Mail! Oh!

nicky: Exactly!

both:
tear It Up And Throw It Away! Throw It Away! Throw It Away!
tear It Up And Throw It Away! (Tear)

nicky:
yeah, You Got It!

kate: Did Not!

nicky:
right!

both:
and Go About Your Day!

nicky:
only The Little People Do Jury Duty Kate!

kate:
yeah!

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:35pm

I didn't want to risk not showing up, since my best friend was here on a visa from Germany and he couldn't appear in court since he was in Germany, so I felt I'd better go to keep him out of trouble.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 10:24am

The city needs money very badly so step up & do your duty - oh wait you did.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 10:26am

Wow, lame attempt at a joke there, Roxy.

[pab]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 10:35am

My advice would be to pay it ASAP. I had a roommate that jumped a subway turnstile once and got a summons which he immediately ignored. A few months later the police turned up at our apartment and took him to be booked. He was about to be processed and sent to Rikers but was then released after the fine was paid.

[Jane2]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 10:39am

"I had a roommate that jumped a subway turnstile once"

That's basically my story. Way back, there was a law in NY that on Sundays, you could ride the subway two times for the price of one. I had a token but my friend didn't, so we both squeezed through together. Voila! On the other side of the turnstile was a cop!

I tried crying but nothing worked as he wrote out the summons. That's also when I learned that it is against the law to walk around NY without ID. After we were on our way, my friend revealed that he had an ounce of pot in his pocket!!!!! oy.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 11:11am

This thread explains what's wrong with America- the kid who's too lazy to go back in to the bathroom so he sprads his urine all over for me to walk in to the cranky old man who thinks everything is a plot to keep him down.

My advice- Don't pee in the street.

And when you're called for jury duty, go. The case might be about some selfish drunk kid who peed in the street and you can throw the book at him!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 1:56pm

I actually think it is a crime not to have public toilets in the city. I know there are a lot of politics about the self cleaning johns and the disabled inability to use them. There have been many times when I have been out and about and had to go very bad and was unable to find a restroom to use.

[winston89]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 8:33pm

There is no crime for not having public toilts in the city.

The city tried to use the self cleaning ones as a public service. They realized that they caused an issue for disabled users so they don't really use them any more. The only place I have ever seen them is in Herald square.

Jumping a turnstile on the subway is a fifty dollar fine.


But, personally. The most annoying run in with a cop I had was because he thought I was being truent. I go to a private High School. We don't always have school the same days or the same time as the city public schools. I got yelled at by a cop becauese on a day I had off I was just walking around the city. The public schools were in fact closed. He thought I was cutting.

I had to take out my ID have him call my school so that they can say that I did have the day off and then have the cop leave giving me a dirty look.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 8:45pm

My mother was in a tiny bar in New Orleans during the French Quarter Festival and the bathroom was broken. She tried going to another bar, but they were full to capacity. She was about to burst, so she saw this little empty parking lot across the street. She thought, what the hell. There was a privacy fence and no one was around so she went behind it to pee. She crossed the street again and met my dad. About five minutes later she was tapped on the shoulder by a cop. He asked her to follow him. He took her back the parking lot and pointed out the five cameras that were on the lot. He also informed her that she had just peed in the back lot of the police station. He did not give her a ticket, but he did compliment her on her tattoo.

There should be public toilets in certain places in the city. You have to buy a soda to pee in the McDonald's on Canal and then wait in the world's longest line. Good times for knock off jewelry.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 8:53pm

Starbucks, people. There's at least one on every block.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 9:09pm

You know what they do at Rikers, don't you, to boys who get put away for peeing publicly?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/21/08 at 12:30am

You think you've got
Some kind of right?
You think you'll come in here and go for free?
The only thing you'll get it "no" for free!
I'm a business gal, you see
I sell the
Privilege to pee!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/21/08 at 10:09am

"Starbucks, people. There's at least one on every block."

Since he had just left a club drunk, I assumed it was extremely late at night. I never knew Starbuck's was open in NYC that late.....