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Re:Justices Approve Strip-Searches for Any Offense by darklajid on Monday April 02, 2012 @02:31PM (#3789421)
You can board these precious airplanes by asking for a pat down (although discouraged?).

I'm clueless about the laws in the US. Can you go to jail for example if you pee in a park? Drive too fast? Are too drunk on the streets to find home? If any of these lead to a yes, do you think those people should be forced to strip in front of someone? Because they, obviously, are bad guys?

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Re:Justices Approve Strip-Searches for Any Offense by 18pfsmt on Monday April 02, 2012 @04:43PM (#3789972)
To answer your questions:

1) Public urination is a ticket (got one in college, many years ago).

2) Speeding is a ticket unless you are going excessively fast (100mph in 30mph zone; these numbers vary among states).

3) Too drunk on the street will get you taken to the drunk tank to sober up/ sleep it off (not jail).

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Re:Justices Approve Strip-Searches for Any Offense by mikecane on Monday April 02, 2012 @05:08PM (#3790107)
Sorry, but getting off with a ticket depends on what you look like and where you're doing it. You'd probably be outraged if a cop flagged you down and decided to frisk you, but that's what happens in many non-white neighborhoods in NYC every day, Constitution or not.
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