Posted on 02/09/2025 2:37:53 PM PST by BenLurkin
The family of a man who was crushed to death in a freak accident fear they may never find out what caused the pop-up urinal he was working on to drop suddenly.
Maintenance engineer Kevin Holding, 60, was killed when working in Soho on 27 January 2023. His inquest heard it took two hours for a crane to arrive to lift the urinal off him.
Pop-up loos were introduced in central London in 2002 to discourage street urination. During the day, they are stored below the pavement and at night they rise hydraulically.
Mr Holding, from Beckenham in south-east London, became trapped underneath the telescopic urinal, which dropped on him while he was working on the device, his inquest was told.
The work he was doing was being carried out on behalf of Westminster City Council, which expressed "its deepest sympathies for Kevin Holding's family and friends".
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To pee or NOT to pee..
Shakespeare strikes again.
When it’s your time to go...
I noticed that in Europe, only the American tourists pay to use the public restrooms. The locals just piss on the outside of the building.
The funny thing is that there is usually a woman at a table in the public restroom collecting the fee, and watching all the men piss. Some of the men can’t piss when a woman is watching them. It is hilarious.
I took a picture at a train station in Berlin that was really funny as five guys, all in full Elvis costume, were lined up pissing on the outside wall of the train station.
Well, that’s one way to get your picture in the virtual paper
As you can see from some of the posted pictures, they have made some effort so that this isnt true anymore but, in most countries over there a couple of decades back it was just a matter of making sure you werent exposing yourself and fire at will.
My pop-up urinal is difficult to use in that state.
I believe “gravity” is the root cause of his death.
The brits must have some very, very different regulations/rules for working on hydraulic machinery.
“Verboten jerken de thingy”
The drunk london women who go out in packs can even use them. If they cant find a alley wall or cant squat without falling over.
He seems to have had a wee problem.
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