Aiming the stream in another direction — paint vs. pee

[yuiyoshida]

The urine-soaked walls that line San Francisco’s alleys and streets are getting ready to fight back.

Mohammed Nuru, head of the city’s Department of Public Works, is looking at a new weapon in his long-running — and so-far losing — war against people who make the world their toilet.

The streets czar is looking for public suggestions about the best places to test a new paint that is so, ah, water repellent that a stream of, shall we say, liquid directed against a wall rebounds onto the shoes and pants of the offender.

“We saw this report on the Internet and thought it looked interesting,” Nuru said. “It’s costing us a lot to send teams out and do cleanup.”

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Fifth-anniversary-of-city-s-parklets-more-6130321.php

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Another potential customer...

https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/please-do-not-urinate-on-weehawken-street/

(Keep upwind in July and August - you have been warned.)

[longship]

2. And if one crosses the streams?

That would be extraordinarily bad.

R&K

[barbtries]

3. public restrooms?

maybe that would help?

[Trillo]

6. ^^ This ++ NT

[global1]

4. Does This Paint Work For Rain?.....

I would like to paint my concrete steps with it. They get slippery when it rains. If it diverts rain from the steps it could maybe prevent that.

[daredtowork]

5. Things could be worse

Behold the Ohio Car Pooper:

http://www.cleveland.com/akron/index.ssf/2015/03/police_man_has_pooped_on_and_i.html