“My Name Is Earl” actress Jaime Pressly is claiming that footage of her copping a squat and pissing on the sidewalk in front of a gay bar in broad daylight were actually just part of an elaborate bridal shower game. The Daily Mail says

The 32-year-old was filmed squatting outside a bar in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, with a trickle of water issuing from beneath her skirt.

But Pressly, who became engaged to entertainment lawyer Simran Singh last Thursday, said she had completed a dare at her bridal shower. She wrote on her Twitter page: ‘Yes, that is me doing dare number eight at my bridal shower. Things are not always what they seem. Notice my hand in the back? It’s pouring a bottle of water! C’mon guys! Do you think I would really pee in the entry way to the Abbey in broad daylight!’

But footage of the incident was put on YouTube [in which] drinkers inside the well-known gay bar can be heard exclaiming in disgust.

Well, I know from personal experience that “pretending” to perform an act considered “lewd and lascivious” by local law enforcement doesn’t sit too well with a judge. Neither does the “spontaneous combustion” defense when you’re being tried for said lewd and lascivious behavior. Apparently bringing chlorine tablets and a Ziploc bag of ammonia into a courtroom can be considered a felony in all 50 states.

GOLDEN UPDATE: Moving it to the top because that picture is so awesome.

Video of the incident after the jump