'Anti-pee' walls in Hackney will splash offenders

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35120259

A special wall coating designed to soak anyone who tries to urinate against it is being trialled by a London council.

The liquid-repelling coating will be used at two popular drinking locations in Shoreditch and Dalston, east London.

Hackney Council spends £100,000 a year cleaning urine off walls and pavements.

Feryal Dermici, cabinet member for neighbourhoods, said: "If the prospect of a fine doesn't put them off from weeing in the street, maybe the risk of getting covered in urine will."

You dirty Southerners you! Still funny method

[Reeve]

Walls aren't actually required for peeing in public.

[Adam Jensen]

Or maybe just provide a few public restrooms that are free to use?

[Kalis]

The only reason to go to Hackney was so you didn't have to piss on the walls in Islington, now there's no point and this will kill the area.

[Reeve]

Or maybe just provide a few public restrooms that are free to use?

Yeah. Amsterdam has these lovely urination booths:

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Or maybe just provide a few public restrooms that are free to use?

Most bars have free toilets

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Yeah. Amsterdam has these lovely urination booths:

That looks horrific and smelly

[Ghâzh]

Or maybe just provide a few public restrooms that are free to use?

While you're at it why don't you give food to the starving children of third world countries to end starvation and take away the guns from middle east to end the war?

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While you're at it why don't you give food to the starving children of third world countries to end starvation and take away the guns from middle east to end the war?

Well this turned sour fast.....

[Tijuana]

Remind me again why you Europeans think Americans are heathens? We don't need anti-pee walls or public urinals on the street here.

[Stop Pretending]

While you're at it why don't you give food to the starving children of third world countries to end starvation and take away the guns from middle east to end the war?

If this isn't sarcasm. Seek professional help.

[Adam Jensen]

While you're at it why don't you give food to the starving children of third world countries to end starvation and take away the guns from middle east to end the war?

Providing a few public restrooms is easy and won't cost much taxpayer money. I'm not asking for the impossible here for fucks sake.

[Moralgy]

Won't people just like aim at the very bottom now to avoid this?

[Deleted]

Remind me again why you Europeans think Americans are heathens? We don't need anti-pee walls or public urinals on the street here.

Insecure much?

[Kalis]

Remind me again why you Europeans think Americans are heathens? We don't need anti-pee walls or public urinals on the street here.

Congratulations, you're better than Hackney. That's like saying you have better women's rights than Saudi Arabia.

[Aldred]

Or maybe just provide a few public restrooms that are free to use?

A way more sensible idea. They've been closing them all over the country for years. Doesn't Manchester have one free public toilet now, in the entire city? It's a pretty big place...

According to the BBC article on this, they spent £100,000 a YEAR in Hackney just cleaning urine off walls and pavements. Really?? I wonder how many portaloos you could buy for that and solve the problem without wasting money on dumb wall coatings.

[Noctus78]

Remind me again why you Europeans think Americans are heathens? We don't need anti-pee walls or public urinals on the street here.

funny it seems the specific coating (Ultra-Ever Dry) is developed in America (San Fransisco) and was used there first to test it

[Ghâzh]

Providing a few public restrooms is easy and won't cost much taxpayer money. I'm not asking for the impossible here for fucks sake.

No but you're implying that no one has thought of it before. If you watch the video that goes with the article there's actually a public bathroom right next to the problem area. Drunk people just don't like using bathrooms (or think logically).

Remind me again why you Europeans think Americans are heathens? We don't need anti-pee walls or public urinals on the street here.

Maybe it's your sissy drinking culture?

[SL1200]

Remind me again why you Europeans think Americans are heathens? We don't need anti-pee walls or public urinals on the street here.

I've encounterd such devices. I tried to pee in a parking garage one time and it started raining ice. There must've been some sort of sensor at work.

[ultimar235]

Won't it encourage people to test it out?

[Reeve]

Most bars have free toilets

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That looks horrific and smelly

They aren't, really, since the vast majority of the urine goes down the hole, and being open air, the rest dries really fast and gets washed down by the rain every so often. And most of them look a bit nicer than that one.