Pee-back time: council introduces ‘bounce off’ walls in bid to slash street urination
Desperate measures: the council seeks revenge on street pee-ers
People who urinate in public could be in for a shock after Hackney Council announced the introduction of walls that “wee back”.
The council’s neighbourhoods team has applied an anti-urine coating – which apparently completely repels liquid – to walls in two popular “wetspots” in Shoreditch and Dalston.
Anyone using the walls to relieve themselves will “see their urine bounce off, covering their shoes and trousers,” the council warned.
However, the council would not reveal the precise location of the walls.
The council spends £100,000 per year washing urine off walls and pavements, and has this year fined more than 500 people for public urination – a threefold increase on last year.
The coating is also designed to stop urine soaking into the wall, reducing stains and smells.
Councillor Feryal Demirci, Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods and Environment, said: “No one wants someone weeing on their own doorstep, yet some people continue to do it on the doorsteps of our residents and businesses.
“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.”
Maybe you should spend that money on some public toilets instead? Nobody’s peeing in the street because they think it’s fun.
All you have to do is pee at an angle and the wee deflects away from you, think snooker balls, they don’t bounce back the way they came. I agree public loo’s would be a better spend of money.
Hackney Council can’t spend money on public lavatories, because they might – shock, horror! – be used by homosexuals for casual sex.
Near to my home there is one of the weekend grey plastic ‘pop up’ urinals. It’s rarely used – the ‘male revellers’ prefer to use nearby walls and the females squat down wherever – they prefer doorways. Gross.
The drunken revellers wont even notice they have urine on their shoes.
Public toilets end up being used as ‘homes’ ..sadly..
…or attract others up to mischief.
TheGreatSmellofBrut
….not the sort of thing you want your children seeing though..surely? Sex in a bog?