Expensive night out: 21-year-old Makauley Hosey fined over $3700 after ‘trying to impress his friends’

A 21-year-old man trying to “impress is friends” on a wild night out in Manjimup has been left with a hefty bill for his antics. Makauley Bruce Davis Hosey was ordered to pay $3700 in fines and reparations for the July incident, during which he tried to squeeze himself into a communications box and urinated on the wall of a popular local watering hole as 30 people were exiting. Hosey appeared in Manjimup Magistrates court last Thursday, and pleaded guilty to urinating in public and damaging a Shire of Manjimup communications box to the value of $1901.01. At 12:01am on July 23, Hosey exited the Tall Timbers Hotel in Manjimup and urinated against the outside wall of the building while more than 30 other patrons were exiting. The court heard the public toilets were just 100m away. A short time later at 12:15am, Hosey approached a group of people near the hotel and spoke with them briefly before he turned and ran towards a communications box. The Shire of Manjimup CCTV captured Hosey pushing his body into the box with enough force to remove the box from its support before returning a short time later to try to put it back in place. The court was told Hosey admitted to police, “I don’t remember the night”, when arrested for the incident. Police charged Hosey with one count of disorderly behaviour in public and one count of criminal damage or destruction of property. Police prosecuter said Hosey had made a series of bad choices but it was clear that the damage to the communications box was a deliberate act. Hosey’s lawyer Derek Hunter said Hosey did not remember much of the night but was remorseful for what he had done. He said Hosey was “trying to impress his friends” in explanation of why he damaged the communications box. Magistrate Tanya Watt said she was “not sure how your friends would have been impressed by that” and urinating in public was “disgusting”, however, accepted the incidents were a series of bad choices. Ms Watt fined Hosey $300 for disorderly behaviour in public and $1500 for criminal damage. She also ordered Hosey to pay $1901.01 to the Shire of Manjimup in reparations but granted him a spent conviction. The maximum penalty for criminal damage in the Magistrates Court of Western Australia is imprisonment for three years and a fine of $36,000.