Police charge woman who shouted profanities at toilet

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com Dawn Herb faces up to three months in jail and a $300 fine if she's convicted of using foul language inside her Scranton, Pa., residence. “The toilet was overflowing and leaking down into the kitchen and I was yelling (for my daughter) to get the mop,” she said, according to The Times-Tribune. “A guy is yelling, ‘Shut the f--- up,’ and I yelled back, ‘Mind your own business.’” Her next-door neighbor, an off-duty cop, eventually called police. Herb was charged with disorderly conduct. “It doesn’t make any sense. I was in my house. It’s not like I was outside or drunk,” Herb, a mother of four, told the paper. “A cop can charge you with disorderly conduct for disrespecting them?” Yep. That's what Patrolman Gerald Tallo seemed to think when he wrote the ticket. “At the end of the day, the opinion that counts is of the magisterial judge,” Public Safety Director Ray Hayes told the paper.