81-year-old woman to be tried for urinating in bushes of Bienville Square

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Source: Mobile Register


MOBILE, Ala. -- An 81-year-old woman with a self-described incontinence problem awaits trial on a charge of public lewdness after Mobile police arrested her for urinating in the bushes in Bienville Square.
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Lula Mae Battle, who will be 82 by the time her case goes to trial Sept. 15, said she was having a bladder emergency the morning of June 3 while at her bank, which is adjacent to the park, but was told that the branch didn't have a restroom available to the public. She headed for the restrooms on the far side of the park, she said, but was unable to make it and began to urinate, so she jumped for cover in the bushes surrounding a small building.

The small building turned out to be a Mobile police substation manned by a cadet. He called for an officer and had her arrested. Battle said that she pleaded with the officer not to take her to jail, but the officer deferred to the cadet because he actually witnessed the act.

Read more: http://blog.al.com/live/2009/08/81yearold_woman_to_be_tried_fo.html#more

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So...a rookie cop, a CADET, 'does his sworn duty'.
Jeez.
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