I can't argue with the complaint. If they want to put bathroom facilities in the park, throw up some walls.

It was a modest solution proposed to encourage park-users to not pee on the greenery, walls or sidewalks.

Apparently, it's not so much the lack of ability to install plumbing...it's about some park-users exercising their civil disobedience in furtherance of their belief in public urination. (I'm going to admit I don't get it...but there it is. There are restrooms...this is for the people that refuse to use them.)

I know a couple of people who prefer to pee outside rather than use most public restrooms. Unfortunately, they're both women, so this kind of thing wouldn't help them.

waste of money!

We constantly have people peeing between our cars and on our garbage cans.

I used to get mad. Then I remembered I made a few "alley stops" when I was a yoot.

I've gone from wanting to poor boiling oil off my third story deck, to wanting to get a megaphone and try the embarrassment angle "hey, that looks like a dick, only smaller" ...

... lately I think about getting a camera and starting a porn site "the dicks of Wrigley Field". Why not turn a profit?

And yeah, I suspect it hasn't changed much in that regard.

:??:

Though I do agree with them on this one!

And if we tear down this edifice...

--imm

I think Bill Maher said one time something like "Face it, we are a bunch of lazy slobs who won't be happy until we can go to the mall wearing a diaper."

The more civilized (and populated) we become, the more limited the areas for natural relief.

People who wear diapers can't usually complain about it.

--imm

it "blurs" what you're holding??

It's hard to find an actual toilet sometimes, and some people stopped bothering to find one. Kind of an uphill battle.

Sane and sober people don't "pee all over the place"

there seems to be a higher number of people who fit that description in San Francisco. (Than in other cities.) Hasn't it been said that governments from Red Counties throughout California bus their homeless people to SF?

Services for homeless and the mentally ill need to be increased.


I do remember smelling urine quite a bit in SF. The smell would randomly hit me as we were walking around the city.

escalators at Powell and Market street, where it comes up from the Muni and Bart Station. Omg, during the summer I had to hold my nose, it wreaked of Urine..

out the stink.

I took a trip to Europe. We decided that we weren't going to drink anything but beer the whole time we were there (no water or coffee allowed) and I was proud of myself for peeing on the street or major building of every city or town I visited while I was there for two weeks.

I don't know what that accomplished, but I was pretty proud of it. After the incident where Marilyn Manson spit on me when I was at one of his concerts in 1997, it is one of my proudest moments in life. Well, there was this one time when I was 12 or 13 years old and I was riding on a spinny ride high in the air at a country fair with my friend's hot sister's friend. I puked all over the place and I covered all sorts of people below me with my puke! Nobody had a clue who did it and I got away with it scott free! The girl I was with was completely disgusted and it was completely awesome.

The photo is a little misleading. More pictures:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/group-suing-sf-remove-urinals-dolores-park-pissoir-7256033.php

Does the urine just pool up at the base?



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ahhh here were go

This is a substance abuse and anti-social behavior issue, not an infrastructure one.

Would you like to be nominated for toilet monitor duty?

Dealing with anti-social substance abusers isn't easy, especially those with money.

As opposed to pissing themselves or just whatever is three feet away from them?

It was screened all the way around, but only from neck to mid-calf, so people could see the heads and feet and streams of the users.

GOLD!

I saw a guy using an open air urinal that looked like a building on a busy street the other day.

peeing walls in the men's room. Apparently, you pee against the wall and there's a drain running along the floor

Truly we're the Roman empire now. How about afew vomitoriums thrown in for a few bucks more?

Sounds like Utah, not San Francisco.

...women using this facility. Do men not value privacy for thee performance of bodily functions? It has always puzzled me that there are no stalls around urinals. I would NEVER want to pee with an audience.

In the third world you can see people squating on the sidewalks. Some places have open sewers with trenches to squat over.

In France, stall-less urinals are often placed next to community sinks in public restrooms. So a woman can be washing her hands while a guy is relieving himself 2' away.

The urinals in the public restrooms at the Eiffel Tower have stalls, but they only are about 4' tall, so you can wave at your wife in line for the women's toilets.

AKAIK, San Francisco is a first world city.

I lived in Japan for 2 years, while in the Air Force nurse corps. One of the more challenging experiences was trying to use one of the in-the-floor trough/trench type toilets, while having a gastrointestinal illness, while on a moving train that was swaying side to side. Thank goodness for the handrails on the walls. Trying to gather up a long skirt or get your pants for enough off so as not to pee on your clothes was an additional challenge.

Relieving oneself in public if you are a female wearing jeans/trousers, would require fully disrobing from the waist down. No thanks.

The only place in the third world I have seen that was India, and the (primarily men) who were doing it would immediately face an onslaught of verbal abuse and occasionally thrown objects.

People peeing on street medians with traffic going by, people peeing on buildings.

On a major government building in Saigon I saw messages painted on the outer walls in red about every 10 feet, all the way around. It said something like "Cong Dai!" I turned to my interpreter and asked what that meant, "Cong Dai! Cong Dai! Cong Dai!"

My interpreter told me it means "Don't Pee! Don't Pee! Don't Pee!"

...Frederick's of Hollywood, or Lover's Lane -

At least assuming the reason for underwear is to protect your pants from your ass. At least assless pants still achieves that goal.

been to Dolores Park and never noticed that. How odd...and Yes, put in a Facility with toilets and Running water! Who thought this was a good idea??

This story gives more of the background:

Dolores Park, with spiffy new look, reopens next week in S.F.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dolores-Park-with-spiffy-new-look-reopens-next-6744096.php

to use a public bathroom, in many cases.

I don't know if Dolores Park has public restrooms- it's been a long time since I chilled on the hills there- but I can tell you I've spent plenty of time wandering around overpriced San Francisco neighborhoods looking for a place to take a leak that wouldn't require me to sit down and order a full dinner, first.

Also, that thing looks more like a pitcher's backstop than a urinal. I would imagine the softball leagues find it confusing. Just sayin'.