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from the better-pissed-off-than-pissed-on dept.
If these walls could talk, they would silently urinate on you with scorn:
London's Hackney council is targeting male revellers' time-honoured practice of necking a skinful, and then relieving themselves against walls, with a hydrophobic coating designed to send steaming streams straight back to the piss-taker.
According to the BBC, the authority spends £100k a year cleaning up after al fresco urinators, and has decided to spunk £1,000 treating walls at "two popular drinking locations in Shoreditch and Dalston".
Ultra-Ever Dry - supplied by US outfit UltraTech International - is so slash-repellent[sic] that any attempt to water protected walls will result in a self-administered golden shower.
The council's Feryal Dermici 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."
(Score: 1) by dr_barnowl on Saturday December 19 2015, @02:10PM
In Manchester they have standing urinals out in the open in the middle of the biggest public square, like a kind of modern sculpture. With drainage.
(Score: 2) by deadstick on Saturday December 19 2015, @09:17PM
And in Prague, an actual sculpture:
http://cdn.tripwiremagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/image_thumb477.png [tripwiremagazine.com]