September 16, 2009
flipping the bird, constitutionally
The legal rights of those of us who have a need to flip the bird or yell at toilets.
The problem is not confined to Pittsburgh. In 2007, a woman in Scranton, Pa., was cited for yelling obscenities at an overflowing toilet in her home – a tirade overheard by her neighbor, an off-duty police officer. She was later acquitted on constitutional grounds, and the city paid her a $19,000 settlement. “We probably handle a dozen of these cases every year,” Walczak says. “We’re actually negotiating with the state police right now, trying to force them to change their training and written materials to make clear you can’t do this.”
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Fuck, I love this.