The public all around the world, for quite likely centuries, have had to endure the stench of old urine soaked into walls and poles in subway stations and all over cities. Now there is something that might persuade people to walk however many steps they’d need to in order to find a public washroom, or even hold it until they get home.
That something is a specialized surface coating called Ultra-Ever Dry; it doesn’t absorb the urine but sends it back from whence it came, spraying it back at the pee-er (can we say ‘pisser’, please?). The urine falls upon the clothes (and likely hands and…you know) of the….pisser, leaving that human (that guy) wet and smelly and the public surface mostly clean.
It is a solution being tried by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) the main transit authority in Philadelphia, who heard it has been used in San Francisco and Hamburg, Germany.
SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch told the Associated Press they are beginning a trial run of Ultra-Ever Dry. “From what we’ve understood, it seems like there’s been some success,” he said. “So we are certainly willing to give this a try.”
As AP pointed out, cities have fines for public urination (in Philly it’s 300 bucks) but it doesn’t seem to stop people, likely the most of them drunk, from doing their business where they have no business doing it. Peeing on themselves might.
The coating is being tried on sidewalks, in elevators, on walls and poles. People will be rather surprised the first time they ‘try’ it.
And left rather wet and smelly.
