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Yes I agree that it is a drag to find the door locked and to have to ask the attendant for a key. So you and I both have had to do that and are aware that when the door is locked one asks the attendant for a key. Of course common sense would tell us that gas stations in some places have to lock up the bathrooms because they have experienced theft, vandalism, people camping out, high usage from non-customers or other problems, and the resulting action of locking the door has the benefit to us of providing a clean, safe, and well-stocked bathroom. This is not uncommon in the U.S., especially in cities. I know it, you know it, and I am positive Lochte and his pals have encountered a locked bathroom in their lives. There was no lack of information. They didn’t come from the homestead to the big city, encounter a locked bathroom, scratch their heads and say, “Whaaat? What does this mean? The door will not open! What do we do? What do we do?”
I have never been so humiliated that I chose to break the door down and so angry that I vandalized the place, nor have I ever encountered a locked door on anyone’s property and decided that a good option was to kick it open, or become enraged and damage the premises by ripping things up, knocking things down, or peeing on the structures.
I can’t get past the “maybe they didn’t know” to ask for a key; all I can think of is, really? Really? Lochte is clearly not a bright bulb, but really? Do you really think that none of these guys has ever encountered a locked restroom? What 32-year-old U.S. male has never encountered a locked restroom?
So getting beyond that, let’s say they had to pee immediately, all of them, because they could not hold it a second longer. All four of them. Let’s just say that. Don’t you think if they had discretely peed on the bushes behind the gas station and quietly gone their way without kicking doors, breaking signs or PEEING ON THE BUILDING, and apparently, acting loud and obnoxious, the issue wouldn’t exist? I am convinced of it.
But in any case, these men are not European and they know well that urinating in public can bring at least, a fine, and at most criminal charges of Indecent Exposure — the point being that it isn’t done. Everyone knows that, and it is not a common or accepted practice in the U.S. to urinate in public. In an emergency, a guy is going to be discrete. In any case, when Lochte chose to urinate on the building instead of the bushes, he wasn’t just relieving himself, he was being aggressive, ugly and a vandal.[/QUOTE]
I agree with most of your arguments :). But do we know whether they knocked down the door?? Somehow in the reports it was only a poster they knocked down from the wall? Also of course you can call using a building to pee against as an act of aggression, but I know guys like to aim at something and we agree that they were drunk and dumb so maybe they didn’t even think as far as trying to be aggressive. We don’t know enough about the actual situation to judge about that. But overall they were 4 stupid drunk idiots who do get punished now for peeing at the wrong moment in the wrong location.
good for you. Obviously there was a lack of information in the swimmers otherwise they would have gotten the key from the guy at the cashier first before they went to the back. And obviously they did not think to get the key from the cashier then, maybe they didn’t know and were just frustrated that the doors were locked?? After all they are men and because I am European and because sometimes restrooms are not readily available I can tell you European guys take it easy then and use a convenient spot. And obviously these Americans did this too. After all it was night and probably not too populated. Not everybody is so perfect and organized as you obviously are. And I can confess you for me it is kind of humiliating to ask some strange looking guy at a gas station for the key to the restroom. Have done it all my life but I still try to avoid it… I think guys are lucky in some ways…[/QUOTE]