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San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine
monkeyzoo writes: San Francisco is testing an ultra-water-repellant paint on wallls in areas fraught with public urination problems. The paint is designed to repel the urine and soil the offender's pants. "It's supposed to, when people urinate, bounce back and hit them on the pants and get them wet. Hopefully that will discourage them. We will put a sign to give them a heads up," said Mohammad Nuru, director of the San Francisco public works. A Florida company named Ultra-Tech produces the super-hydrophobic oleophobic nano-coating that was also recently used with success on walls in Hamburg, Germany [video] to discourage public urination. Signs posted there warn, "Do not pee here! We pee back!"
...most Slashdot posts and would bounce right back at their authors.
Yeah, was thinking the same thing.
So you're drunk enough to piss on some poor bastards wall. You start pissing and something unexpected happens. Do you:
a) Stop pissing;
b) Piss on the sidewalk; or
c) Get creative, bring Pythagoras into the fray, and see what interesting effects you can achieve with small angular corrections...
Put more public troughs (yes women do it, just not as much as men) or stalls into problem areas.
They can be temporary.
They're made of plastic or stainless components and are easily cleaned.
They're relatively cheap.
They work.
> So you're drunk enough to piss on some poor bastards wall
See there you go, trying to see the perspective of the person causing the problem and understanding how they might reason it.... you sir, are unfit for public office.
Seriously though I wonder if the people who come up with these ideas have just no life experience at all, or are they just con artists trying to funnel budget money into their own pockets? (Or a little of both)
> You start pissing and something unexpected happens.
For example... lets say you walked down the driveway of a residential house, right past the cars and over to the trash cans....just for example you know.
Then you hear "hey" from up above, and notice 4 people up on the second floor porch looking down at you pissing on their garbage bins.
Turns out, I can tell you exactly what one local college student did, he waved and said "hey" and continued pissing.
Overall though, it tends to happen at night and by that point in the evening most of the actual waste was flushed out of their system 3 trips to the urinal ago back in the bar, so its not like its even going to smell in the morning. I probably get more piss on my house from local animals, even here in the city.
Its hard to call it a real problem. Plant more trees, problem solved.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"