Woman ticketed for shouting profanities at her overflowing toilet.

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Police cite woman for potty mouth: cussing out her toilet

SCRANTON, Pa. — Talk about a potty mouth.

A Scranton woman who allegedly 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.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

the **** has america come to?

 

[lollycop]

WTF? I always swear when I make mistakes.

 

[tzarinna]

t: She must swear worse than I do.

 

[Fran]

When an American is swearing at their TOILET nowadays, you know we're f***ed.

 

[Carcharodon]

Teehee..."potty mouth." How clever.

It's almost as bad as when Oprah makes a pun on her show...which, when I have the misfortune of being in the room while it's on, is about every five minutes. It's like she honestly thinks she's clever or something.

The damndest thing about it is that all she has to do is look at the audience in her best, "I have more money than GOD and if you don't laugh right now I will have you all killed," face and the audience roars with laughter.

.../rant.

 

[lollycop]

Teehee..."potty mouth." How clever.

It's almost as bad as when Oprah makes a pun on her show...which, when I have the misfortune of being in the room while it's on, is about every five minutes. It's like she honestly thinks she's clever or something.

The damndest thing about it is that all she has to do is look at the audience in her best, "I have more money than GOD and if you don't laugh right now I will have you all killed," face and the audience roars with laughter.

.../rant.

I would like to buy what your smoking.t:

 

[Carcharodon]

I would like to buy what your smoking.t:

I'm high on stress.

 

[lollycop]

I'm high on stress.

Anger leads to stress, stress leads to pissed, pissed leads to broken XBOX 360 controllers (as said in frank wests book on how to get the frank the pimp achivement)

 

[Fran]

I don't think I could be mad at my toilet. It gets rid of the congested evil I have inside me

 

[Carcharodon]

Anger leads to stress, stress leads to pissed, pissed leads to broken XBOX 360 controllers (as said in frank wests book on how to get the frank the pimp achivement)

XBOX controllers are among the sturdiest pieces of electronic hardware in the world.

 

[Carcharodon]

I don't think I could be mad at my toilet. It gets rid of the congested evil I have inside me

My toilet spits it back out.

 

[hammy]

Wth is going on with American police.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Scranton is real?!

 

[Fran]

Yeah, my mom lived near there for a while.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

Is Dunder/Mifflin real?

 

[Fran]

Yeah, she saw the factory when she lived near there.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

...The f**k?

 

[Spade]

Hey, inanimate objects have feelings too.

 

[Danalys]

i'm thinking "overflowing toilet" would be a good insult. then you can call the overflowing toilet an overflowing toilet and get arrested.

 

[Spade]

The worst part of the arrest would be if they slammed you into the toilet head-first while bringing you down to the ground...when it's backed up.

 

[Kritish]

Since when were the police allowed to punish people for using foul language? The ACLU is going to have a field day with this.

 

[Danalys]

Since when were the police allowed to punish people for using foul language? The ACLU is going to have a field day with this.

yeah they should have got their mum to clip them round the ear instead.

 

[Shuley]

The case will be thrown out.

 

[rdh007]