Philadelphia resident Nathaniel Robboy, 2, was recently given a $50 ticket for urinating on some grass along the sidewalk, according to reports.
After a clothing store wouldn’t let him do his business inside, no less.
Despite the young boy’s age, the incident earned his mother a ticket for public urination and a lecture on how to parent, leaving her … well, pissed.
Caroline Robboy said she was shopping on South Street with her three children when Nathaniel, her youngest, felt the call of nature on Sunday.
A clothing store refused to allow the toddler to use the bathroom, Robboy says, so the family left and Nathaniel darted over to a light pole.
“I told him to go over to a grassy patch and make pee,” she said. “Next thing you know, I have an officer giving me a police ticket for public urination!”
The officer who witnessed the incident noted that Robboy told the boy to pee on the street and never acknowledged that it was an accident.
Supposedly, he also offered another defense of his actions:
“He said, ‘I’m doing this for your protection because God forbid there might have been a pervert out there looking at my son,’” she said afterward.
A Philadelphia Police Department spokesman told the city’s NBC 10 that officers can exercise their own discretion when writing tickets.
Robboy plans to fight this one, and not for the $50.
“I just want a place that feels friendly to me, where my children feel safe and have positive experiences with police officers,” she said.
If that’s the case, she may be living in the wrong city, and that’s not a commentary on this policeman or any other law enforcement.
Eagles fans booed Santa Claus once. Just saying.
