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Historic Buildings in Baltimore Are in Danger - From Human Pee Wreaking Havoc on Them
Red State ^ | 12/09/2023 | Ward Clark

Posted on 12/09/2023 7:21:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The deterioration of our major cities has been a matter of concern for some time now. While we write a lot at RedState about the left-coast cities of Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles as examples, and those are pretty compelling examples, now we turn our attention to the East. If you own or have an interest in a historic building in downtown Baltimore...

Urine trouble.

Many of downtown Baltimore’s buildings are slowly being washed away. The problem is less flooding and rain, more golden showers.

That’s right, pee is eroding thousands of historic buildings downtown, the exterior bases corroding with every spurt.

Like a yellow Sharpie, it’s highlighting long-standing tensions in Baltimore: the decline of a once bustling city center, dwindling public spaces and the enduring needs of the local homeless population.

It's pretty obvious, to anyone that has been paying attention to the governance of most of our major cities, Baltimore being no exception, that the problems are not "dwindling public spaces," much less the "enduring needs of the local homeless population." Those are symptoms, not causes--and these are causes, nobody in the Baltimore municipal government is willing to discuss; but they are varied, not least of which is the city's failure at basic things like education and criminal justice.

The issue is happening in other places worldwide. But of course, Baltimore's response is to throw more money at the problem.

The acidic liquid is also wreaking havoc on the world’s tallest church in Germany, the historic streets of Paris, and medieval inns in London, where cities have opted to install “urine deflectors” and “open sidewalk urinals” to redirect bold tinklers.

Baltimore’s considering another approach: more public restrooms.

City officials and the Downtown Partnership are working to install several restrooms throughout downtown sometime in 2025. Exact locations, timelines and costs are still to be determined.

One supposes it couldn't hurt, but how much money does the city propose to spend? How will the city prevent these new public restrooms from being used as temporary (or even semi-permanent) shelters by the same homeless people who are causing the pee problem in the first place? How will the city prevent these new public restrooms from being used as places to shoot up? From being taken over by drug dealers looking for a discreet place to peddle their illegal wares?

It's likely that "city officials" and the Downtown Partnership haven't thought much about that part.

The problem, of course, is almost completely due to the major cities of the nation failing to address the problem of street people - the "homeless" that the left so often bemoans. The cities in question tacitly cater to the homeless populations, but they will do anything except require them to get off the streets; that, of course, being the one thing that might save them from themselves. It’s certainly cruel and unusual to leave these people on the streets. Forget about the possibility of harm to themselves; they made choices that led them to this status, and nobody else is responsible for their predicament. Many, if not most, of them have mental health and substance abuse issues, and they pose a direct threat to the urban environs they infest. Look at Los Angeles, where they have had outbreaks of various communicable diseases among their urban outdoor population, including such things as typhus, tuberculosis, and others, largely due to failures in basic sanitation principles that were well-known as long ago as the days of the Roman Republic.

Baltimore and Maryland's problems are many and varied, and all can be laid at the feet of Democrat leadership. As I've said repeatedly, until that changes, nothing else will.



TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: baltimore; buildings; humanurine; maryland; pee; stink

1 posted on 12/09/2023 7:21:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Greasing the palms of city-connected contractors - just the usual big-city grift and graft.

Those tax dollars aren't going to steal themselves...

2 posted on 12/09/2023 7:32:45 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve never been to many of these leftish hell holes...but I know what they smell like. So, no thanks.


3 posted on 12/09/2023 7:34:35 PM PST by rottndog (What comes after America?)
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To: SeekAndFind
I remember my son telling me about what Germany did a while back. This article is from 2015:

Germans use clever way to deter drunk people from peeing on buildings

4 posted on 12/09/2023 7:39:41 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: rottndog
"I’ve never been to many of these leftish hell holes...
but I know what they smell like. So, no thanks."

You ought to visit Times Square, NYC on New Years Day or the
day after. I have. It will make you barf.
And New Years is coming up! You have a chance to
sample the atmosphere of the place if you so desire.

5 posted on 12/09/2023 8:14:11 PM PST by StormEye
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To: SeekAndFind

Surround the buildings with electric fences. Problem solved.


6 posted on 12/09/2023 8:27:26 PM PST by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: SeekAndFind
Reporting to my very first shit in Virginia I got handed a ticket to Baltimore where my ship was in dry dock. It probly was my worst day on the ship.....

Baltimore is/was/will always be a pit. Remember the last riots?

This is why Baltimore currently sucks the big one.

7 posted on 12/09/2023 8:39:15 PM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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Ooops! HA! I reported to my first ship, not shit. Sorry for the mass confusion.


8 posted on 12/09/2023 8:42:48 PM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Delta 21; Larry Lucido
Who’s to blame? The Jews....


9 posted on 12/09/2023 9:02:35 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess pissing your life away takes on a whole new meaning


10 posted on 12/10/2023 4:49:48 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Delta 21

Good work.


11 posted on 12/10/2023 5:41:12 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: SeekAndFind

I recall a similar problem on the Statue of Liberty during it’s redo.


12 posted on 12/10/2023 5:47:00 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Delta 21

Spot on the facts that many refuse to admit.


13 posted on 12/10/2023 8:43:49 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: mass55th

“Germans even have a nickname for these errant pee-ers: Wildpinkler.”
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The Germans have a word for everything...


14 posted on 12/10/2023 8:51:22 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: SeekAndFind

There are a ridiculous number of structures in the country called “historic”.

This is partly due to a false belief that the nation or the state or the city will last forever.

Everything changes.

In a thousand years very few cities that exist in the country today will exist at all—it is possible none of them will exist.

So much for “historical” buildings....


15 posted on 12/10/2023 8:56:00 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Obey or get canceled.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ve been told that the smell of urine keeps deer away. So on the plus side, it’s probably safe to walk around downtown Baltimore without worrying about running into any deer.


16 posted on 12/10/2023 12:19:01 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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