• dinren@discuss.online
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    While peeing, a man who called himself the bar owner came into the women’s restroom and looked over Strobel’s stall.

    This is the crime.

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    I already read this story yesterday. The title here is wrong in two ways:

    1. He used the women’s restroom after trying the men’s and finding there were no stalls, only urinals. The motivation was not the law, but necessity.
    2. South Carolina doesn’t even have one of those shitty laws (yet)
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      He was going out of his way to do everything “right” too.

      He couldn’t use the men’s, because it was a trough set up. He talked to an employee, made sure that no one was in the women’s.

      And then the cops had the gall to accuse him of being drunk and disorderly?

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      There have been so many cops everywhere the past fucking week where I live. I am so terrified.

      I started using men’s restrooms in 2013. No one ever cared. No one has ever cared.

      I used to travel a lot across my state - I like going to wonky small towns, dragged ex’s to places like the Spiro Mounds, wanted to explore the ghost town of Picher, had adventures with foster children in Arkansas…. but I have to stay in a city now.

      It’s like a video game map now. Hubworlds are safe, the cops will be noticed if they do something and are at least dimly aware of that. But travel could cause a random encounter, with multiple deeply unpleasant outcomes.

      That is why they do that shit. It’s stochastic terrorism. At least when I was a kid crying in terror over 9/11, the world was telling me that it was happening and it was real.

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        Well, like a video game, time to arm up and train for potential random encounters. I’d like to the see the people start winning some of these encounters. These cowards will draw back as soon as they get bit.

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          These cowards will draw back as soon as they get bit.

          No, they won’t. They will escalate. And feel righteous doing it.