It's Peeback Time...

[Agschmid]

Hell in a Handbasket: Using Superhydrophobic Paint to Create Splashback on Drunken Public Urinators

Mornings in New York: The taste of hot coffee, the din of traffic, the aroma of fresh urine. If you have the bad luck to pass anywhere a drunken bar-goer might have the night before, as most of us do, chances are you'll pass some building nook with a suspicious stain and catch a nasty whiff of beer that's been through somebody.

Drunken public urination isn't just an American problem, of course: Tokyo, London, Hamburg, and every city whose name is under a clock on some globally-concerned office's wall suffers the same problem. But Hamburg is now fighting it with technology. Specifically, superhydrophobic paint, i.e. water-repellent coating, which a local community board has applied liberally to walls in their party district of St. Pauli.

Here are the results:

Source.

[2naSalit]

1. I like it! n/t

[hedgehog]

2. I wonder if a similar coating could be developed for spray paint.

[lame54]

3. what is there public restroom situation?...

there are similar complaints in Manhattan
but public restrooms are hard to find

[hifiguy]

4. Brilliant!

German science and engineering strikes again!

[rurallib]

5. it will just be a challenge to some idiots

pee off to the left and spray your buddies.

[hunter]

6. We ought to treat pee as the valuable resource it is.

It used to be collected and composted to make potassium nitrate, which was used to make gunpowder and plant fertilizers.

A place where drunks pee might be a very valuable community asset.

I guess we're just not ready for open urinals in public places...

Okay, I jest, but just a little.