Most people spend a penny

[lost in london]

I got a Penalty Notice from the Met Police on Saturday morning at 1am for having a piss on a side street next to a crappy parking lot, apparently to the distress of passers by. There was no-one on the same street as me apart from 4 plain clothed coppers in a renault espace. An £80 fine, thank you very much!

I know what I did was dirty, but what was the alternative? Pay £10 to go into a club to use their toilets? Not that they would have let me in seeing as it was pretty late. No restaurants or pubs were open and the chances of finding a public toilet was zero. I found the quietest, most out of the way place I could to do what had to be done.

I don't mind being punished for doing this, but only if there is a reasonable alternative. Why punish people if the facilities for complying with the law aren't there?

In the centre of London apparently they have portable urinals that they put up on Friday and Saturday nights which sound like a great idea. Why can't they be in all the main parts of town? (I was in Upper Street near Angel, hardly a quiet residential area).

Anyone else had one of these and has anyone bothered appealing it?

 

[bhaexpress]

You know, (it has to be said) they're taking the piss.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Just ask for the distressed passers-by to be called into court as witnesses?

The Met get away with far too much on their say-so.

(Was going to say they get away with murder)

 

[chips and gravy]

People piss in the entrance to the alley to the rear of my property. It stinks and is extremely anti-social.

I've no sympathy for you - I hope you learned your lesson

 

[The Orange Seagull]

When I was younger there were public toilets everywhere now you have a job finding one at all and even when you do find one you usually have to pay and what do you do if you haven't got the 20p to get in?!

THEY'RE TAKING THE PISS!

 

[SK1NT]

gutted