Man with 'prostate issue' pees in deli meat case at Michigan grocery store

[left-of-center2012]

A Michigan man faces charges after he was caught peeing in a grocery store display case, according to police. The 69-year-old suspect hasn’t been identified, but police said they cited him Sunday night after someone snapped a picture of him urinating onto pre-packaged hot dogs in a Kroger grocery store deli meat display case in Swartz Creek, MLive reports.

The citation came after the shopper alerted grocery store workers about what the man was doing, according to police. “He said ‘I did it. I couldn’t hold it anymore,’” said Metro Police Authority Lt. Joel Grahn, according to MLive. “He claimed to have a prostate issue and then he claimed he has nerve problems that cause him to go more frequently.”

Enlarged prostates — which can trigger a frequent and unexpected need to urinate — impact one in three men in their 60s, and about half of men in their 80s, according to Harvard University’s medical school.

The man faces property destruction and indecent exposure charges, WJRT reports. A Michigan woman posted a photo of what appears to be the incident on Facebook — and she had some advice for shoppers at the Kroger location. “This guy was pissing in the deli case at the Miller Rd Kroger last night,” she wrote, in a post that has been shared thousands of times. “[W]ash your prepackaged deli case stuff folks.”

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article216754740.html

[Beakybird]

1. Urine trouble

[htuttle]

4. Ouch

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. A little jail time I think not out of line

Problem? Can't hold it?

Piss in a corner, on yourself, in the floor for christ sake on FOOD??

[WePurrsevere]

3. Eww! That's what Depends, Poise and other similar products are for...

While I totally understand and am sympathetic to incontinence and urgency issues and I understand it's a hit to one's pride when the need to use 'those' types of products is there but whipping it out and peeing in a public place and on food products is totally unacceptable.

[LisaM]

7. It would help if there were more public restrooms.

I can't speak to why this guy went where he did, but the lack of public restrooms in this country is a health hazard. The comments I am reading here are a bit vicious. Jail him! Show his face!

How about a place with food provides easily available restrooms?

I cldon't know his guy's situation, but we have got to do better. In Seattle the public elevators all smell like pee because there's nowhere else to go

For the record, I don't support peeing on food in grocery stores, but why was he so desperate to begin with?

[SoCalNative]

9. Pretty sure there was a restroom

in the store. Most all of them have public restrooms available these days.

[WePurrsevere]

12. While I agree that there's a lack of restrooms in public areas...

The grocery store probably had one it just may be that the urge came on fast because that can be how it works and the restroom could have been on the opposite side of the store IDK.

I don't think he needs jail time or humiliation 'if' he has a real medical (or even mental health) issue. He may need help but I can't think of any even semi good reason to pee into where food is. If it's that fast an onset and hurts to hold it, pee your pants if you must but not into where food is. Better get it you've been diagnosed with a condition that could cause you to have urinary or bowel accidents go right out, pick up a bag of 'insurance' and start using them.

[LisaM]

14. I can't either, but this kneejerk reaction for public shaming

just gets to me

[WePurrsevere]

15. It does me too...

It's essentially a trial set in the court of public opinion, with a jury that the vast majority of time doesn't have all of the facts, with a sentence that could destroy a life of not just the guilty but the innocent or those with extenuating circumstances that we may not understand or know about.

[LisaM]

16. Thank you.

It's 1692 all over. Glad I am not alone

[WePurrsevere]

18. In many ways...

Yes, it is a 1692 repeat. You'd think we'd have learned more from history by now.

[Sneederbunk]

5. Identify him. Publish a photo of his face.

[magicarpet]

6. Jeez,.. he certainly could have figured out a better ....

.... remedy to handle that problem. Urinating on edible food is a vindictive act he should be incarcerated for that sick behavior. Was his excuse he did not know better ?

[Turbineguy]

8. Ding-ding-ding!

And we have another trump administration cabinet candidate!

[No Vested Interest]

10. And we thought Florida Man was off-the-charts.....

A new low bar has been breached.

[marble falls]

11. As if deli meats didn't have enough nitrates already.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

13. You made me laugh.

[marble falls]

17. I live for it! Has to be a joke inside most everything.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

19. Keep living for it, marble falls

My Welsh grandfather's motto was : "Never lose your sense of humour. Lose it and you have lost all."

He was so wise.

[Catherine Vincent]

20. He couldnt find a corner to pee in?

Or how about the floor?

Disgusting!