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http://www.takepart.com/video/2015/03/04/watch-public-urinators-get-peeback?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-03-04Residents of a German neighborhood known for its bars and nightclubs have a warning for drunk people who are too lazy to find a bathroom: Dont pee here. We pee back.
Thats the message on signs that have been put up in the popular St. Pauli district of Hamburg. But people living in the community arent going to be the ones urinating on the areas revelers. Theyve applied a liquid-repelling paint to walls throughout the community, which splashes urine back onto the tinkler.
The neighborhood association created the above video, St. Pauli Pees Back, to get the word out about the antipublic urination efforts. Along with footage of residents painting walls and expressing their disgust with folks who take a whiz wherever they please, the video also shows peeing passersby getting a taste of their own medicine.
Nearly 20 million people per year come to party on St. Paulis Reeperbahn. While its great that theyre walking off their drinks instead of jumping behind the wheel of a motor vehicle, the smell they leave behind is disgusting. On the streets here, its like being in a sewer, Julia Staron, a spokeswoman for the neighborhood association, told Spiegel.
pansypoo53219
(20,976 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I'm sensing an arms race, or an infinite loop.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)But, I was thinking this would be better.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)In dog training the responsibility is on the human to prevent or replace unwanted behaviors: "PREvent the E-vent."
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)I wish I had gotten a puppy or two before having children.
Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)You're totally correct in that assessment based on my own life experience with dogs and children (and even Soldiers in the Army).
A dog will only do what you let them get away with. The same is true with the rest.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)No I wasn't being snarky. I love dogs and I love my human family as well.
postulater
(5,075 posts)Or does the Apple logo mean it's a Penile USB Port?
mopinko
(70,103 posts)in chicago the problem is not big festivals. for those they have plenty of portapotties.
but the folks that live around wrigley field could sure use that paint.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Not that it has much to do with peeing, but a little Thursday morning factoid...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Thanks for the laugh!
To pee or not to pee.....
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)People who need to pee will find a place to do so.