Religious group sues San Francisco over open-air urinal

Associated Press ^ | Apr 19, 2016 12:34 AM EDT

[Olog-hai]

A religious organization is suing the city San Francisco to remove an open-air urinal it calls unsanitary and indecent from a popular park.

The Chinese Christian Union of San Francisco filed a civil complaint last week demanding the city remove the concrete circular urinal from the iconic Dolores Park.

The group says the urinal, which is out in the open and screened only through plants for privacy, “emanates offensive odors,” “has no hand-washing facilities” and “it’s offensive to manners and morals.” …

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San Fransicko

[sheik yerbouty]

Pervs a poppin’..

[Mr. M.J.B.]

Arguing “it’s offensive to manners and morals” isn’t going to go anywhere in the People’s Republic of San Fransicko, land of Sodomania and scat.

[Jack Straw from Wichita]

And you can wave to the nice people riding by on the Muni.

[jobim]

Yup... San Francisco. I lived there for the winter of my 21st year to take in the kulchuh,
reading at City Lights Bookstore, writing, listening to live music at the coffee houses.
Bohemiansville.

And I remember dogs & dogexcrement everywhere! There was a no-leash law, and it was
a paradise for canines. And I remember in front of my apartment on Plymouth Street, an
elderly man snapped, having stepped in dogexcrement one too many times, picked up
piles and threw it at my building, cussing in probably his native Swedish.

Freedom's just another word for nowhere else to poo..."

[norton]

In the 2nd half of the 20th century a quite cosmopolitan Asian city decided to install pissoirs in order to make European visitors more comfortable. They were introduced with much fanfare:
A few days later, it was necessary to run full page ads informing the populace that you were supposed to do your business inside the structure and not on the outer wall.

[kaehurowing]

Isn’t this the city where people crap in the streets?

[R. Scott]

Better the people use the alley.

[Unam Sanctam]

Offensive to manners and morals? In San Francisco? Do they even know what those terms mean there?

[OldNewYork]

No way. You’ve got to be kidding me.

[Morgana]

Isn’t there something they could have done to have made that more discreet?

[sdpatriot]

umm i don’t get the concept of the design.... do you piss on the cement slab? the screen? color me dumb...

[Resolute Conservative]

How do wymyns hit the screen?

[SZonian]

http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/11/19/san-francisco-has-its-own-real-time-human-poop-map

The map:

http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2015/10/05/mapping-s-f-s-human-feces-on-the-streets/

One can zoom in for more detail, if one is that curious.

[Moltke]

http://www.messynessychic.com/2016/02/22/the-prettiest-pissoirs-of-bygone-paris/

[Mr. M.J.B.]

Dear God, it is even worse than I imagined. Demonic, sick, freak liberals.

And of course it attracts the sickest of the sick

That entire city warrants a 9.5 followed by a 30 day rain of flaming sulpher. Finish with salting the entire land to a depth of 3 meters.

[Jack Straw from Wichita]

Ah, my favorite city in the world. I miss it greatly.

[SaveFerris]

Wow