| Here are some columns specifically aimed at spring breakers. For general legal advice not necessarily pertaining to spring break, go here.
Fake ID's and the Perils of Walking While Intoxicated - see how new laws can affect your spring break '98 |
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Halcyon Days having passed with the Winter Solstice and the universities and colleges entrenched in massive snow drifts, its students now blinded by blizzards eagerly await the Rites of Spring. Eternal rites evolving from fertility festivals were celebrated in honor of Dionysus (Bacchus) and Persephone with sacraments of wine heavily consumed and ritual forms of worship through dance and bizarre behavior. These sacraments and rituals of ancient times are now heavily regulated and policed and certain practices are forbidden. Worshipers are prudent to familiarize themselves with certain protocols lest they end in capitivity and thus deprive the gods their due. |
| Public Lewdness, Sec. 21.07 Texas Penal Code concerns itself with public fornication between persons (meaning live humans) and animals (whether live or dead.) It is forbidden if performed in the presence of someone who might be offended. This would be the Condo or Hotel Security Forces who routinely roust naked worshipers from hot tubs whether they be coupling in violent passion or merely engaged in titillating exploration of one another. |
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Exposure of one's gentialia or anus is considered Indecent Exposure - Sec. 21.08 Texas Penal Code - if done in a public place with lustful intent. Merely taking a leak or a dump will not qualify, ordinairly. The exposure must be accomplished with a desire to arouse or gratify the sexual desires of any person. Here a Security Guard would probably not qualify as the object of ones sexual desires. However, a cavea: It may be argued a person so exposed is satisfying his or her sexual desires in addition to relieving him or herself and thus run afoul of the law. |
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Both offenses are Misdemeanors and it will cost you 500 bucks to be sprung from the carcel.
For future discussion: does "No" really mean "No" and does "Yes" really mean "Yes." Well, in short "Yes" and "No." |
