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A TV Reporter Was Arrested for Taking a Dump in Someone's Front Yard During Work

When you got to go, you got to go.
A different reporter who didn't poop in anyone's yard, as far as we know. Original image via Flickr user Greger Ravik

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We've all done stupid things at work. But while most of us can refrain from inopportune selfie-taking and masturbating on the job, sometimes you just get the urge and can't hold back. That seems to be what happened earlier this week to TV reporter Jonathan Lowe in Goodyear, Arizona, who was arrested for pooping in someone's front yard while out on assignment, the Phoenix New Times reports.

Lowe was reportedly following up on an insane local story for CBS 5 News about a former college football player who allegedly sacrificed his family poodle in a smoker. While at the residence, Lowe apparently decided to do what thousands of dogs do every day, dropped trou, and laid a deuce right there in the front yard. A neighbor nearby reportedly caught Lowe in the act and promptly called the cops.

"Lowe chose to use the front yard of a residence to relieve himself," Liza Kutis, spokeswoman for the Goodyear police department told the New Times. "[The cops] approached him, he said he'd had to relieve himself, and they arrested him."

Police hauled Lowe off to jail in handcuffs where he was cited with a misdemenor charge for public defecation and faces a $2,500 fine or up to six months in jail.

CBS 5's news director Dan Wilson told the New Times that Lowe was still employed at the station as of Wednesday, but wherever his career takes him, this is probably a story he'll have trouble wiping away.