One of the commonest features of progressive, Democratically-governed cities is the pervasive smell of public urination. San Francisco has chosen to address the issue it by inaugurating the first open-air public urinal, which I believe will be henceforth known as the Harvey Milk Memorial Scenic Viewing Area.
San Francisco’s iconic Dolores Park is now home to the city’s first open-air urinal, the latest move to combat public urination in the city.
Because the best way to combat a problem is to accommodate it. #LeftistLogic
City crews have inspected 10,000 light posts to make sure they won’t fall over from erosion. That comes after a three-story-tall light post corroded by a likely mix of human and dog urine, and weighed down by a large banner, toppled.
Now, I wonder what they will do about the aggressive, mentally ill panhandlers. Perhaps by paying them to limit their aggressive pan-handling to the Dolores Park.
Does this mean that men are going to be putting their “gear” on public display in SF? Is that perhaps the intent?
It may be the intent for some, but it certainly isn’t the intent on the part of the sponsors. If you have ever been in San Francisco over the past 30 years, it would be obvious why any solution to this particular problem is being sought out.
At this point in time, the new Dolores Park, um, feature, may indeed be the best way to ameliorate that particular problem.
When you have a city where the discharge of bodily functions is considered a basic human right, along with panhandling and the expectation of a positive response thereto, a concept like “broken windows” policing simply. Will. Not. Fly. The as-you-choose-to-do mindset has become so pervasive that I don’t think there is any way to combat it until those who have tired of it stepping on their own rights move away and leave behind a shrinking tax base and concomitant anarchy.
Case in point: last summer, the SF public works department decided to test out a new type of paint created by a Georgia company which was successfully used in a community in Germany with rowdy beer drinkers prone to outdoor public urination. The paint has tiny pyramidal crystals which bond to each other when dry and creates a surface that causes any liquid which hits it at an angle to effectively bounce back, thus causing the applicant of such liquid to have at least part of their person dampened with said liquid. The net effect is that if you pee on a wall with that paint applied, you will either wet your shoes or your pant legs with your own urine, depending of the force of the stream.
So when local CBS-TV affiliate KPIX did a story on the paint, they asked a person [a Black thirtysomething male] admittedly affected by the effort what he thought of the City’s approach, he responded that he would “just go somewhere else”. Now in a truly civilized society, no adult person would admit to public urination to anyone, much less a reporter with a camera crew. Similarly, a civilized adult would take the hint and think ‘maybe I shouldn’t be doing that’, not “I will whiz somewhere else that doesn’t have the paint”. But this is San Francisco we’re talking about, and it’s why it’s come down to an outdoor public urinal.
why should public urination gain all this attentiion? There are times when I do not have to pee but have to make doo doo instead. I have done it many times in public and always blame it on thoughtless dog walkers. What we need are toilet paper dispensers at strategic locations.