LYNN – When nature calls, there may be only one answer. But unfortunately for a city woman, that answer resulted in $500 cash bail on a lewdness charge after the defendant allegedly began and ended an impromptu, drunken and pantsless pole dance by peeing on the police station floor.”The Lynn Police matron was in the booking area at the time, and she was shocked at what she had just witnessed (the defendant) do,” Lynn Police Officer Peter Panacopoulos reported.Lynnette Perry, 37, of 193 Williams Ave. #2, was arrested and charged with operating under the influence of liquor; and open and gross lewdness; at 10:27 p.m. Tuesday. She pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday in Lynn District Court.Police reported responding to a motor vehicle accident at the Hess Station on Liberty Street Tuesday night and found two women arguing and yelling, Panacopoulos wrote in a report. One of the women stopped yelling and apologized to the officer, police said. Police said the other, later identified as Perry, did not.The other woman told police she was driving down Central Avenue when Perry’s car ran a stop sign on Liberty Street and hit her, according to court documents.Officers reported Perry’s breath smelled of alcohol, her eyes were glassy and red, and her speech was slurred – although she was able to reply when the officer asked her to take a field sobriety test.”She stated, ?I ain’t taking (expletive), bitch,'” Panacopoulos wrote.Police said the vehicle damage supported the other woman’s account.Perry allegedly continued to berate officers as she was taken to the station and brought into booking. Police said Perry was handcuffed to a pole and screamed that she “had to take a piss.”Officers reported telling Perry she could use the bathroom after booking.”Perry stood up and pulled her pants down, and she began urinating on the floor in the booking area,” Panacopoulos reported. “Perry began dancing while bent over, exposing her rectum and genitalia.”Perry then allegedly peed on the floor again.Brendan Gupta, an intern with the district attorney’s office, requested Perry be held on $1,500 cash bail. Gupta said Perry had an eight-page record, including 52 guilty findings on charges that included larceny and disorderly conduct.Court-appointed defense attorney Deborah McWade said Perry felt police were not listening to her account that both cars were driving on Central Street prior to the accident.”She was, somewhat regrettably, frustrated at that, and, as a result of her frustration, told officers how she felt about the entire situation,” McWade told the court.As for her client’s bladder control, or lack thereof, McWade told the court that Perry said she told police numerous times that she had to go to the bathroom. But officers “kept putting her off.”McWade said Perry also said she exposed herself because she was trying to demonstrate “she couldn’t clean herself up in a respectable way,” without toilet paper.McWade requested $250 cash bail.Judge Ellen Flatley ordered $500 cash bail, which Perry posted later that afternoon, according to court documents. Perry is scheduled to return to court Aug. 19.
