Posted on 09/08/2018 2:59:21 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Men are peeing en plein air, on one of Pariss most beautiful 17th-century streetscapes. And the people of Paris are peeved.
Me? Im just upset that women cant do it, too.
Pariss pee-ers are making their daily deposits into uritrottoirs, mini street-side urinals topped with flower boxes. These chest-height repositories sport a hole below the foliage for urine, which collects in a bale of concealed straw, later used to produce nitrogen-rich compost for Paris parks and gardens.
The city has chosen to install the uritrottoirs a portmanteau of urinoir (urinal) and trottoir (sidewalk) to combat public peeing on buildings, in alleys and among Pariss urban bushes and flowers.
Public urination is no small matter in Paris, where the habit even has a name: les pipis sauvages, or wild peeing. The city has so far installed four uritrottoirs to help curb errant excretion around the capital. A fifth is planned.
The funding of these on-street comfort stations was approved through municipal participatory budgeting voted on by residents who were no doubt savage over all this pipi.
But one uritrottoir wasn't so well received.
This particular pee-box was located on Île Saint-Louis along the Seine River a high tourist-traffic spot within sight of Notre-Dame Cathedral. A user could literally use his free hand to wave to tourists on river boat cruises.
The indictment? It was ugly and out of place.
One man told CNN, I think installing a urinal in the streets of Paris for those who don't respect their surroundings is a good idea, but in my opinion, this model is not attractive at all, and where it's been set up is not appropriate at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
So it does not go into the Paris sewer system? Ed Norton would be appalled!
I see what you did there.
Five in the entire city? On average you would have to walk about 1/3 of the way across the city to get to one. Nothing like a two mile walk with crossed legs.
Parts of Paris need to be cleaned up with Pinesol, scrub brushes and 7.62 rounds. If that’s not effective, move in artillery battalions.
I remember seeing a men’s urinal in Grenoble on a path along the river! At first I didn’t know what it was although when I got closer I saw men going in, standing for a minute and then exiting with a smile, haa!
Marshal MacMahon already did the cleaning with artillery thing.
It didn’t take.
Paris used to have them too,they were called pissoirs.
Saw and availed myself of them while on leave, in ‘81 and ‘82.
And I as well saw and smelled :p in Ste-Mere-Eglise in 1994.
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