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The World's Most-High Tech Urinal
Mudzy writes "In an effort to handle its nighttime public urination problem, Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, is considering installing high-tech urinals that disappear below street level during the day. Then at night, an operator comes by with a remote and the Urilift hydraulically lifts to sidewalk level in about two minutes. Then the unit is ready to serve all the nighttime party animals who don't mind peeing in a very exposed public urinal. The $75,000 system has been installed across the Netherlands, and have spread to London and Belfast, but Victoria will be the first North American city to try them out."
They're taking the piss. Sorry.
What about during the day?
Should we punish those who must heed nature's call when there aren't any public restrooms anywhere in sight?
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every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
How about requiring bars (or just the city itself) to furnish 24-hour public toilets ? Oh gosh of course we don't want to help the homeless... I have a kidney condition which makes me urinate frequently, so yeah I've peed in various semi-public places before when I couldn't find a public bathroom. FWIW, remember that Victoria has been in the news for dumping raw sewage into Puget Sound- it was a big item a few years back when I lived in the Seattle area. Of all the possible answers, I can't see this proposal being THE ONE.
Seriously, watch the video, it's hillarious ;)
the one in belfast is cool. it's just down the street from me and instead of using the one at my place i walk down there to do my stuff and meet girls who are there spectating (they're jealous because they can't stand up to do it).
then it would be perfect for a cron job. Why do you need to pay someone to click the friggin button?
If not cron, maybe X11 to the rescue?
They want you to pee in a corvette?
America?
come available for dogs? If they made this operatable by dogs, they would solve the problem for "good". :P
I went to uni in Victoria. Call me nostalgic but, I'll really miss the urine soaked side walks downtown...It just won't be the same dammit!
this is not new. we have had these in my home town, Reading/UK for a long time. people used to piss on the streets at night. but we have these now. http://s5h.net/u?b9a
Why UNIX?
People who to drunk to care will do it wherever (or piss their pants if they're completely wasted).
People who are desperate because there's no open public toilets will continue to (attempt to) hide behind a tree, bus stop or anything else.
Don't you just hate it when people reply to your signature?
I like to use it when I'm near such a urinal to lower it down, especially when people are peeing ;=)
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Here in Guatemala, we just have a spiral shaped wall, with a urinal in the centre. Way cheaper, and you can use it in the day.
Chances are any disscution on Slashdot will degrade into a flamewar about ID/Christianity within 14 posts.
...just like Urinus appears every night in the starry skies.
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Now just to wait for a geek to hack a remote control sequence, and film the urinals doing the Bellagio Fountains.
It would be interesting to see if they did anything to secure the 'remote' signal. :)
:)
If they haven't (and offcourse even if they have) it would be possible to make your own remote
Then even during the day you can have your very own urinal up within minutes
These are fully automatic (doors slides open) and cleans themselves after you have left.
http://www.arkh.no/design_3_toalett.php?1=toalett
Also works for handicapped
Other than the obvious "high tech" aspect to these pissoirs and having them only available at night which just doesn't make sense to me, since I occasionally have to urinate during daylight hours.
I've also seen these in North African countries that I've visited like Tunisia and Morocco. I'm guessing the French brought the concept.
"Do the Right Thing. It will gratify some people and astound the rest." - Mark Twain
I wonder if it would be possible to record the signals from the remote, then use tem to lower the urinal as drunkards piss in them?
I feel for you, bro, I feel for you. I too suffer from a similar condition, prostatitis, and my condition requires that I jackoff 5-8 times a day to keep the seminal fluid pressure at a reasonable level. Public restrooms are a godsend for people with my condition. Of course, people look at me kind of funny when they walk in and see me over by the sinks with a picture of Kathleen Fent in one hand and me furiously jacking off my cock in the other hand, but hey it is a medical condition and there isnt much to be done, except for the public restrooms that are equiped with glory holes. TFA didnt mention whether these hi-tech urinals will have any provisions for glory holes. Hope so. Anyway, best wishes to you and yours with that uromycitisis.
Yup, they get dropped off in high-guman-traffic areas for Friday and Saturday nights. They're plastic, no technology. You piss into the recepticle (a pee pod has a receptible on each of its sides) and the piss accumulates in the middle in some form of tank. Then they're collected in the early morning. The recepticle is large enough to vomit into too.
Very Cheap. Low-tech. Sucks if you're female though.
One of the locations is outside the public toilets, which are locked at night to stop bum banditry and drug abuse (the toilets have needle bins).
The bums still pee in the public parking elevators. That's about as high tech as it gets here for public peeing.
"how would YOU like it... mkay... if some PRANKSTER ... mkay... came along and pinched off a big, steamy chud in YOUR high tech urinal..."
Yo, dawg, my fly bitch be wantin' 2 kno, how's dem hoes gonna spray if theze pissoirs b dezigned 4 tha dingleberry holdin' set? I almost had 2 lay down tha pimpsmack b4 she recognized that bruthas rule this here world and hold that fat wallet, homie. Keep ur mind on the green, not the in-between. Word! Peace out.
According to the article, this is already install in Holland. Amazing what the Dutch will tolerate for a good time.
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today with cellphones, who uses them? they should be 24 hours below ground.
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In recent years, bathrooms have been subject to greater attention on the part of designers, who give full rein to their creativity to turn bathrooms into an experience for the senses imbued with great artistic value. This book presents a selection of very diverse projects in which bathrooms enjoy a special status as a vehicle for emotions, various artistic and cultural expressions, corporate values and the requirements of different social groups. Particular attention has been paid to the latter, as the needs of a male user are not the same as those of a woman, child, senior citizen or handicapped person -- and the design of a lavatory must take these characteristics into account. Over the course of four chapters Leisure and Culture, Residential Bathrooms, Working Environment and Commuting Spaces -- follows a global survey of bathrooms belonging to different types of buildings, including bars, restaurants, theaters, gyms, offices, hospitals, kindergartens, public institutions, airports and train stations, with special emphasis on the means used to bring together creativity and functionality.
It seems that designers are gradually rebelling against the taboos which dictate when, where, how and with whom we should relieve ourselves, and are converting a visit to the bathroom into not just a satisfaction of physical needs but also a pleasant experience. "
In Ghent, Belgium you have the same only a bit more low-tech.
But it has a higher 'up-time' and takes less personnel to operate. So why bother?
I mean, if you to get to an indoor toilet before you wet yourself, then you shouldn't have drunk so much in the first place. But given how we've now got things like 'do not ram in eye' labels on knives etc, it's not surprising that we're catering to the lowest common denominator.
At least the high tech model is more usable than this this one.
How long before we have a jackass episode spending one full day in one of these?
that the sex that urinates in public is also the sex that can pee standing up.
.. girls don't pee. They expel all waste products as a pine-smelling vapour emitted through their pores.
urinals themselves were also often considered an eyesore by some and so whenever streetworks caused them to be temporarily disappear they wouldn't be replaced and we ended up with less and less of them.
Then someone noted that people now started peeing against buildings and voila, expensive study, failing countermeasures and finally the installation of high expensive replacement of the urinals that cost a fraction and had been there decades before some bureaucrat thought they needed to go.
It tells you everything you need to know about goverment. Phase out a much need public service, watch it go to rot, spend a fortune on analysing it and finally at great expense reintroduce it claiming you have invented it all a new.
Why in the hell are incentivating people not to wash their hands after they take a piss!?!? It already freaks me out when it happens in restaurants (specially when waiters do it), but now I can't shake hands with anyone on the street at night?
Most people just don't want to buy a cafe milky or pay 50cents (euro) to use a nice warm cozy pisser in a pot-filled establishment is beyond me.
Am I the only person concerned that it doesn't allow you to wash your hands?
And before anyone says "I don't make it a habit to piss on my hands" their main use is for drunk people.
The urinals are already hooked up to the main water supply, how hard would it be to add some kind of sensor to detect when a person puts their hands under the faucet?
The bums still pee in the public parking elevators. That's about as high tech as it gets here for public peeing.
And it too goes up and down!
Granted, the summary specifically mentions that they have been installed in London, after mentioning that they have been "installed across the Netherlands" -- leading people to assume that London is the ONLY UK city they've been installed in.
This could be a simple omission, or it could be an artifact of a USian-centric viewpoint. After all, according to Google Maps London and Reading are only 42.4 miles (~68 km) apart. By our standards, that makes Reading a suburb of London.... and it's common practice to refer to an entire metropolitan area (a city and all of its suburbs) under the name of the main city. So... following that practice, Reading is part of London.
Chow's ego is already so large that he advertises his blog with google adwords. I think a link from slashdot might cause his hands to go green and swell up.
If only his writing was as good as his instinct for self promotion.
Find the remote control frequency =)
Other than the obvious "high tech" aspect to these pissoirs [google.com] and having them only available at night which just doesn't make sense to me, since I occasionally have to urinate during daylight hours.
You have apparently not been through large cities very often. I'm staying in the Hilton hotel in San Mateo, CA on a weekend getaway with my lovely wife. (She's sleeping in upstairs) Going through San Fransisco, we hit several of the "economically disadvantaged" areas, and the smell of old urine was frequently strong and rank. Not just "oh, this is bad", but "I'm so glad I haven't eaten for several hours because if I'd eaten recently I'd hurl it all over the sidewalk" bad.
It's obvious that public urination isn't an issue for many of the street dwellers, but the foul odors are an issue for everybody else. The price is a bit high - why not just put the urinals on the side of the buildings and have doors that close? Spending that much money PER URINAL could get rather prohibitive...
PS: You don't want these open in the daytime - that would leave a strong implicit message that swinging out the member and taking a leak in broad daylight is perfectly OK...
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Since Victoria dumps billions of liters of its raw sewage directly into the Strait of Juan de Fuca after filtering out the chunks, what they really need is a treatment plant that disappears from view instead of robotic urinals.
http://www.urilift.com/ and http://www.urilift.nl/
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First, there is the computational urinal from the MIT Media Lab, called You're In Control (Urine Control). More information at the project's web site. The urinal has a screen above it, and you can play video games by appropriately directing your urine stream.
Then, less high tech, but still very useful is the p-mate, which is a device that permits women to pee standing up. Now, if only there could be a device for men to get multiple orgasms.
Tell me this is a joke......this is really sad.......and sounds fun at the same time! :)
Perfect for the drunk people who are already inclined to exhibitionism.
Unfortunately, you're probably correct associating our countrywide genital shame with the pervasive religious majority.
Who wants public urination at all? Not me. A little modesty, attributable to whatever source, keeping you from pissing in front of me is a good thing.
This is a cool product, addressing an icky problem -- I'd just hate to see these installed unnecessarily, actually encouraging people to relieve themselves in public.
These things need all the hookups that a standard bathroom requires -- water, sewer, power. Why not just put in some extra drains, like storm drains, in discreet locations? Maybe throw a wall in front of it? Some subtle public education would do the rest.
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I used a urinal like this several times in Amsterdam, where they are even more exposed. Once you've gotten past the weirdness of using it the first time, you quickly get used to it.
Frankly, these seem like a good idea, and we could use them here in San Francisco. (Our current enclosed 'euro-toilets' are mainly used by addicts for shooting up.) You would have to clean the pop-up street urinals daily, however. I can imagine that drunk party boys can't aim very well.
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This is a stupid idea that's bound to fall victim to vandalism, and it's already overly expensive in the first place. Consider that tax dollars are going to this. There are better cheaper solutions available or already in place. You can't even wash your hands and public pissing is an offence already. Are they trying to just cater to any idiotic habit, throwing money away on whatever Johnny-doesn't-care wants to do next?
Wow, this is so terribly wrong I just can't find words to describe it..
Maybe instead of spending big sums of money on hydraulic, public (WTF!) urinals it would be better to try and create a culture where people DON'T urinate in public places? Fucking barbarians..
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Will this be the beginning of more profound changes in the image of the cities between day and night?. Perhaps boutiques can hide underground to leave place to pubs, fountains can dissapear to leave place to an ice skating ring... The possibilities are endless :-)
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I would say, this is a waste of public money. Keep trees and bushes and let the people piss on the trees and bushes, like any other reasonable and sensible nature loving animal would do! Of course, it may not work for the number two, unless there are some dumpsters provided that actually compost the humanure and turn it into good soil for more trees and bushes.
I am not sure about urinals, but if you put public toilets, Seattle Times reported a problem here in Seattle, prostitutes and drug addicts abusing them for their own purposes for unlimited amount of time, forcing some homeless people to take even more dumps into the wild outside the public sewage system.
So, while perhaps saving the homely people the unwelcome whiff of the smell of the homeless pee, installing urinals does NOT alleviate the problem of homeless crap. However, if urinals are public enough (no walls) they may perhaps NOT be abused for prostituting and drug users.
Allright, now once I have submitted a reply, I go and read the original article to learn more about the system.
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Before viewing this video, I didn't realize the extent and urgency of the public urination problem! Now it is clear that our governments must do everything in its power to protect us from this scourge! I will gladly give up my privacy and other rights, if pissing in public is what it takes to keep our country safe from these malicious urinators who seek to undermine our continence.
From now on, people will only talk of two eras: before the urilift, and after!
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America?
... was that ... an America-bash?
Ohmigosh
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
No joke. Just don't use it at twilight or you get stuck in a urinal for 12 hours.
1. The attentant is a safety measure. This is a hydraulticly-driven device, and should a drink lose conciousness and collapse against one it would be quite capable of removing his head the next morning. Thus an operator wanders around each time they must be raised or lowered to inspect for damage or debree.
2. This isn't really a loss of taboo, but an admission of defeat to them: A urinal which disappears in the day, rather than staying to remind people of both biological reality and the messyness of others. If the objective was to provide public urinals alone, then it would have been easy to install them long ago. But it is only now someone has found a way to keep them out of sight - and out of mind - that people have begun to seriously consider them.
They should make sure a sensor prevents someone's leg getting caught in the lift when it lowers,
and a sensor to make sure it doesn't pop up with someone standing (or a car parked) on top of the lift.
I would suggest they make the American lifts diameter a little wider, Americans tend to be fat.
Better yet: Zoning laws requiring bars and dance places to build rest room facilities that are oversized and large enough to handle a full capacity night of drinking men, and double that for the women, who always end up waiting in line to use the facilities!
Poor Drunken ladies, no respect!
And what happens if someone is standing in one early in the morning when it submerges? Will he be trapped inside underground?
What a way to go..
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...had a much lower-tech version at least 48 years ago, and still does AFAIK. Dorm residents used a pedestrian tunnel under the Atlanta Expressway (believe it's I-75 now) to reach Duffy's Tavern, the one bar in the neighborhood that kept the cops greased so it could serve beer to underage students. It was about a quarter mile walk with no legitimate pissers anywhere, so we just used the tunnel. Whenever the smell got overpowering, the fire department would flush it with the big hose.
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Simple infra-red sensor similar to what is used on motorized revolving doors. If there is anybody within the vicinity, no motion.
-b.
Japan has to be worried. They have always been at the forefront of high-tech toilets and urinals. Is this their Sputnik? (Or is it "Sputternik" here?)
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You're kind of busy, with your back to the street in a very public place at night. You've probably had a drink and not as aware as you might be normally. Chances are someone will steal your wallet and you won't be able to do much immediately. Unless you fancy running down the street dribbling with your fly open.
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The problem with some areas of major cities - and I have had this problem in downtown Vancouver (a short ferry ride away from Victoria) - is that it is sometimes hard to find a place to use the washroom, and not just if you're drunk. There's quite often issues with addicts etc using the washroom facilities to shoot up in private, so many establishments will have the washrooms locked, requiring you get a key at the front desk. Quite often, they will also require you to make a purchase beforehand.
Now normally this wouldn't be a big deal, but when you really really need to take a leak (perhaps that venti-sized Starbucks apple cider just kicked in 15 minutes later) having to wait in line to be serviced in order to get the can really sucks. I haven't quite had an incident where I have been unable to make it, but it's come close enough that things have gone from the level of "unconfortable" to well near painful. I remember the days when it wasn't a big deal to stop at the corner store if you needed to take a leak, now half of them don't even *have* public washrooms. And again, I'm not talking about being drunk and needing to pee, just needing to go with some pressing urgency
Holding in one's bladder does enough to reduce mobility. I could see how those with some mobility disablement etc would find these devices very useful.
I can't wait til it comes to the USA and guys start getting arrested for public urination and then have to register as sex offenders.
Yes, they have to now if they are caught pissing in public, like what the fuck does taking a wizz have to do with sex?
Yes, you are missing 4th grade Geography.
The continent containing Canada and USA is called North America. So yes, Victoria is in fact a North American city, even though it lies in Canada, the country.
Yes.
waiting to pee..will it lift me up into air? and cannot get down without breaking my legs?
Simple solution: if you sell liquor, you have to provide public restrooms.
The JCDecaux line of Automated Public Conveniences are fine, but too expensive. Most US cities insist on installing the giant self-cleaning wheelchair-accessable unit, which is the size of a parking space and costs about $65,000 per year, with maintenance. European installations usually have the smaller "pillar" unit.
The JCDecaux units work OK, but they're not designed for volume production. I've seen the internals of the machinery, and it's made out of standard Telemecanique industrial automation components. There's nothing wrong with that for a one-off design, but if you built a washing machine from that product line, it would cost at least $5000 and be twice as big as it should be.
New York City is going with a Cemusa design, from Italy. That's entirely advertising-supported.
Try and create a culture where people DON'T urinate in public places? What culture would that be? Every culture on earth has public urination. Expecting people to stop is like expecting people to not have premarital or non-reproductive sex. It's like expecting people to give up eating meat. It's like expecting people to not do things that are unhealthy, like smoking or taking drugs. It's just not going to happen, and the best thing you can possibly do is to divorce yourself of that fantasy right now. We're animals -- deal with it.
The article is VERY clear about this: the urinals don't raise and lower by themselves. They are operated by a remote control from a few feet away. So the attendant would be present and presumably see the unconscious gentleman. He could decide to lower it anyway, but that's really no different than you deciding to run down a drunk fellow who stumbles out into the road when you're driving at night.
But thank you for the wonderful post! You successfully demonstrated that you didn't actually read the article -- making you an ignorant loudmouth Plus, you managed to disgrace yourself and your children for seven generations. Your family will be placed in the unclean caste and have to marry each other.
Seriously, reading isn't as difficult as the president of the United States makes it look. It's actually well within the grasp of most people. Try it sometime, you might enjoy it.
For the love of god, just read the fucking article. It's all there. Do you really think any city on Earth is dumb enough to build a device that would swallow people up and trap them beneath the Earth in a urine-filled coffin?
You could have figured this out from the PICTURES alone. It is startling you were too lazy to even click the link and look at the pictures.
I was just in Victoria last weekend and discovered that they have these, http://www.ralphkeyes.com/amsterdam/images/outdoor _urinal2.JPG as a pilot project to evaluate putting in the hydraluic version. They really aren't that embarassing to use and if they came with the p-cones that others have linked to, would also be female friendly. As for why the night-time avalability, Having them anywhere produces a Not In My Back Yard reaction from buisness'. Having them available only at night would help to minimize this, they also would feel less private during the day and project a day time image that the city doesn't desire.
.02 from using them and talking to the buisness'.
Just my
and having them only available at night which just doesn't make sense to me, since I occasionally have to urinate during daylight hours.
You've never gone out drinking at night, have you?
Why not just keep it in the ground with a hole at the top so people would just aim for it while standing up?
People needing privacy can pretend to sit down or lie down on the ground. The catch bag can then be pulled out and replaced.
I can make one for 1/10th the price. Give me a shovel.
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I for one am not totally adverse to a urinal that sucks ?
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I read in the newspaper some time ago that in one of the cities in India they are combatting the problem of drunks urinating on the walls by plastering the walls with pictures of God. I couldn't find a link for it sorry. Maybe we could outsource the development of more pop-up toilets to India...
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I lived in amsterdam last year. I'm feeling weird because the first guy in the video looks like me, but I can't be sure. Is that first wall the wall of Westerkerk near the Anne Frank Huis? Could it have been.. oh *!*
Did anyone else get reminded of the George Michael video?
We have a system where the urinals are sort of kiosk-like affairs. You put in a quarter (or a token for the homeless), the door opens, you go in and do your thing, you leave, the door closes and locks for a few minutes while the system steam-cleans the insides completely, then it's ready for the next customer.
I've only used them a couple times, but they seem efficient - as long as they don't break down, which they do apparently.
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I'm from Victoria.
The problem is this: Drunks pissing in doorways. Not the homeless - drunks stumbling around after a night at the bar.
Now, this is Victoria, and the mayor has realized that if they want to install a $75k urinal, then he's going to have to pay for it, and that means it's never, ever going to get done. What they have now - and what they will continue using for all time - is temporary urinals that don't hydraulically move. They will get hauled away by the public works staff every night.
As for "drug use", another article in the TC (The Victoria Times Colonist) revealed that the problem with drug users and prostitutes is exaggerated. IIRC, they account for less than 1% of public bathroom traffic.
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Now if only Victoria could do something about all that sewage it dumps straight into the ocean.
How can such a beautiful and intelligent city still dump untreated sewage into salmon and whale migration routes!?!
"America is sooo backwords. Europeans are so much more sophisiticated."
Yeah, they can't keep from pissing in the streets, to the government gives them help doing it. That's some real sophistication there.
The hypen's in the wrong place. It should be "Most High-Tech Urinal", not "Most-High Tech Urinal". I know the "editors" don't actually edit, but I'm wondering if they even have the necessary command of the language to edit should they choose to do so. Yeah, yeah, I must be new here...
Talk about a waste of the taxpayers' money...If they want to piss in the streets then let them pay the fines or make them work off the debt by...you guessed it...cleaning up the streets.
And I'm here to piss on your letterbox
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Looks like Europe is far more ahead than US/Canada at least in this technology... :-)
In my home city of Durham we have had these installed for a while. It's a shame that they are necessary but frankly they are better then the rivers of pee that used to run out of alleys and doorways after 11 o'clock! And if you are the one caught short on the way to the taxi rank, at least you don't have to worry about getting your collar felt by the boys in blue for peeing through the letterbox of Argos (disgusting, but I saw it happen...)
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Is it just me or do other people get visions of men getting electric shocks up the privates here.
should hi tech and urinals ever mix.
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Before this, there was only one thing from Dutch culture that had spread to become universally known: "apartheid". Now we also have this. I am so proud of being a Dutchie, you can't even imagine.
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That first wall looks like the wall of St Bavo in Haarlem. And that first guy looks like **me**. Really. I want my 15 minutes of fame. Now.
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... but I need to run to the toilet first.
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Wouldn't it make more sense to hire more police? You'd think they could even pay their salaries by giving enough public urination and/or drunkenness tickets. And a night in the hoosegow would make anyone think twice about urinating in public. Seems silly to spend $75K just to facilitate these people being idiots.
But, that's just me.
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I admit it's not a huge improvement, but any progress on the bad-Uranus-puns front should be rewarded.