Cold shower for Dutch men urinating in public

[Champ]

Dutch bar flies who can not wait until they are home to relieve themselves are in for a surprise in the southern town of Tilburg where a restaurant owner has put up a cold shower to discourage urinating in public, a newspaper reported on Friday.

Tired of drunks urinating in the ally next to his eatery, located close to a busy bar district, restaurant owner Willy van den Boomgaard installed a cold shower outside to surprise peeing punters.

The shower head is equipped with sensors and will spring into action when anyone nears the alcove where it is located between 1:00am and 7:00am.

"It cost me over 900 euros to install but if it means my restaurant gets rid of the urine stench it will be worth it," the owner told the Algemeen Dagblad.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1187041.htm

[Earth_First]

1. That's great!

"That'll learn 'em!"

[TA]

2. Yes but has he thought that maybe some of those drunks

are homeless and might look forward to a free shower. I can see it now -- a bunch of naked drunks singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall ...

[JVS]

3. Maybe if he put a urinal in the alley he'd have saved money

[JVS]

4. Am I the only person who thought it said Gold instead of Cold?

[Kat45]

7. As much as I hate to admit it, you're not.

LOL

[Lavender Brown]

5. Haha

[Terran]

6. Heh! I coulda used one of those when I lived in San Francisco

My house was around the corner from The Eagle, and on the edge of the night club zone to boot. So my stoop was always getting peed on at night, and worse.