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San Francisco's Public Works Agency Tests Paint That Repels Urine

Posted by samzenpus on from the keeping-it-clean dept.

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!"

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  1. Re:Solutions? by Zuulie · · Score: 3, Interesting
    In London, the local councils, in their great wisdom, removed practically all public toilets. They were the flabbergasted when they had a problem with people urinating and decided that the solution was to punish people (£50 on-the-spot fine) rather than admitting removing all those public toilets was a huge mistake.

    When you drum up support for surveillance and harder punishments, you seem to completely forget that our tax money should be used for public services, not for new ways to monitor and punish people for 'crimes' that were created by the local councils themselves.

    This deranged urge to hang people out without any due diligence is baffling. Why is the standard process associated with our justice system is always shunned when moral panic ensues?

  2. Re:Hurr durr by monkeyzoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    OP Here... The editors' left out the last line of my submission:
    "Time will tell if this works better than the firehose employed in India." https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

      It's a hilarious video of a solution that has been tried in India, where a water truck goes around and blasts street pissers with a firehose.