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San Francisco To Redirect Stream Of Public Urinators With Hydrophobic Walls
Guardian(UK) ^ | March 13, 2015 | Jana Kasperkevic

Posted on 03/13/2015 12:35:30 PM PDT by Steelfish

San Francisco To Redirect Stream Of Public Urinators With Hydrophobic Walls Department of Public Works looks to Europe for idea to paint city walls with water-repellent paint in effort to combat public urination problem Pee back paint Hamburg Some walls in Hamburg, Germany pee back.

Jana Kasperkevic 13 March 2015 The city of San Francisco, tired of cleaning up after those who relieve themselves in the public, wants to test walls that pee back.

The San Francisco department of public works (DPW) is hoping to paint some of the city’s walls with hydrophobic (water-repellent) paint. If urinated upon, the paint makes the urine bounce off the wall – and back at the urinator’s feet.

In Europe, such paint has been proven to work. In Hamburg, walls in the St Pauli quarter of the city have been painted with a super-hydrophobic coating and given accompanying signs, which read: “Do not pee here. We pee back!” It was the Hamburg experiment, as captured in a YouTube video, that captured the attention of San Francisco officials.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: hydrophobic; paint; publicurination; sanfrancisco; walls
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To: Happy1947

What happens when you actually urinate on a electric fence...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwKlFkX65Zs


41 posted on 03/13/2015 1:18:11 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The only thing better than this would be paint that caused the urinator’s pee to splash back all over his clothes.

Actually, that's pretty much what happens anyway.

Used to teach classes about, among other things, how to find pet urine in carpet. UV light is the best way.

Fun thing to do in class. Line everybody up, turn out the lights and shine the UV on their shoes and lower legs.

All the guys, and surprising numbers of the females, are speckled with urine.

42 posted on 03/13/2015 1:18:47 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Steelfish
San Francisco rediscovering its Judeo-Christian heritage?

I Kings 21.21 (Elijah to Ahab): "Behold, I will...cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall..."

43 posted on 03/13/2015 1:42:35 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Steelfish
San Francisco rediscovering its Judeo-Christian heritage?

I Kings 21.21 (Elijah to Ahab): "Behold, I will...cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall..."

44 posted on 03/13/2015 1:42:35 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Steelfish

That you have to address the problems as such means you’ll never solve it. They’re not peeing on the walls because they want to. It’s because they want to pee and they don’t care where. They’ll just pee elsewhere in public.

San Fran is doomed, damned, and done.


45 posted on 03/13/2015 2:09:28 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: Vendome

I have encountered some pretty stupid people in my life but that guy in the video about tops them all. Who would intentionally do that? Needed to have that hooked to 110 household current.


46 posted on 03/13/2015 2:21:57 PM PDT by Happy1947
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To: Happy1947

See their other videos.

LOL

I think they are idiots but, it’s funny...


47 posted on 03/13/2015 2:38:41 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Steelfish

They’re just trying to use their stream of justice to put out the hate.


48 posted on 03/13/2015 3:27:13 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: R. Scott
It would be nice if there were public restrooms.

In San Francisco, they call those, 'romper rooms'.

49 posted on 03/13/2015 3:31:56 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Steelfish

In San Francisco, they pee on the walls and crap on the sidewalk. Guys walk around naked. They act like dogs.


50 posted on 03/13/2015 5:36:35 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Secret Agent Man

I don’t know but when you have to go you have to go.


51 posted on 03/14/2015 4:21:19 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Steelfish

reminds me of a scene from “police squad”, where the walls shoot spray paint back at the vandals,


52 posted on 03/14/2015 8:46:50 AM PDT by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
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