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by bitwize 1226 days ago
Try "sleeping under a bridge the rest of your life". Public exposure is a registerable offense in some states.
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Fortunately there's plenty of world outside of the United States, where peeing outside does not make you a sex offender.
Public exposure convictions/registration from people who are innocently peeing somewhere they shouldn't is vanishingly rare. As in, I've never seen a report of a conviction that I found credible, but if I did, I'd bet lots of money that you couldn't find a second one. What I HAVE found is lots of people on the registry for indecent exposure who tell their friends "I was just peeing in alley, I swear", but I do not count those as credible.
Do you really expose to the public when you are turning your back to everyone?