Lee Michael Butcher most definitely falls into the later category.

And so it was that the 33-year-old found himself in the middle of a Wollongong McDonalds, at 3 o’clock one November morning, his pants slung down around his bum, relieving himself on the tile floor as a virtual stranger cheered him on.

Rewind the clock a few hours and Butcher was at the end of a stressful week and looking to ease his angst with a few alcoholic beverages.

He went out for the night and at some stage struck up a friendship with two other men.

The trio ended up stumbling into the Burelli Street McDonalds just after 3am, ready for a feed.

Butcher, who later described himself as “incredibly drunk” by this stage, was sitting inside the restaurant with the pair when they dared him to urinate on the floor.

“I only remember tiny bits of it,” he told Wollongong Local Court this week as he relived what happened next.

“I’m very ashamed of what I did.”

Court documents said CCTV footage showed Butcher stand up, lower the zipper on his shorts, pull his pants down to his buttocks, while one of his new-found friends whips his mobile phone out, ready to capture the impending action.

Butcher begins to urinate onto the tiled floor but is just a second into relieving himself when the restaurant’s manager catches sight of the spectacle and yells at him to stop.

The court heard Butcher immediately turned away, raised his shorts and walked out of the building with one of the men.

The CCTV footage was provided to police, who uploaded a still image of Butcher to their Facebook page. He was subsequently identified and issued with a court attendance notice for the charge of behaving in an offensive manner in public.

In court this week, Magistrate Cate Follent said Butcher’s behaviour that night was “reprehensible”.

“It must have been extremely confronting for the female store manager who had to deal with it.”

However, she agreed not to record a conviction against Butcher  after accepting he was very remorseful, had pleaded guilty at the first available opportunity and was unlikely to offend again.