Washing away India's piss-streets

[PickelledEggs]

http://www.lostateminor.com/2014/06/02/look-pissing/

India has a wet problem. And it has nothing to do with their droughts. Years of campaigns, big and small, have failed to stop grown men from urinating in public at anywhere and any time they feel like it. Even setting up more public urinals and imposing huge fines didn’t stop the random splattering, so to speak. As government officials scratch their heads for a better solution, a new anti-public urination activist group called the Clean Indian has taken matters into their own hands, and literally too.

They are sending out trucks to patrol the streets of Mumbai. These ‘pissing tankers’, as they are called, carry gallons of water and men who don on masks to conceal their identity. Every time these masked men spot someone urinating by the road-side, they stop to unleash torrents of water on the offender. It’s certainly an unusual way of melting out punishment by “peeing” on those who insist on breaking the law.

[stromboli]

Thank you for sharing. I will file this in the "information that will end a conversation" folder.

[stromboli]

Interesting. I wonder if this is about the fact that they are 1.27 billion. Because I know how the British men urinate wherever and however they want here and as it is a fucking no no here for the native men...

The irony is that by default people from the US have now somehow become civilized. "We be a packin' AK-47's but we ain't pissin' in no street no how!"

[PickelledEggs]

The irony is that by default people from the US have now somehow become civilized. "We be a packin' AK-47's but we ain't pissin' in no street no how!"

Yeah. We piss outside, but only when camping or incredibly drunk at a party. For some reason toilets always seem to break during college parties....

Sent via your mom.

[Atheon]

They charge money to piss in public toilets in India. That's why people pee (and poo) in public places in India.

Providing free, clean, working public toilets might cost government money, but the payback in terms of improved public health would be far greater.

[stromboli]

Except the public toilets in malls, shopping centers toilets are charged here too.

We went through a pay toilet phase in the US, but everything now is free again. I never saw the sense in it, and apparently nobody else did either.

[SGOS]

We went through a pay toilet phase in the US, but everything now is free again. I never saw the sense in it, and apparently nobody else did either.

Yeah, I remember those.  They weren't really common, and I wasn't aware that the trend ended.  Although, I haven't seen one of them in years.  They always struck me as capitalism taken to an extreme.  Charging some poor guy for having to take a piss.  I think I remember seeing bathrooms with free stalls and pay stalls.  I think I heard the idea was that the pay stalls were supposed to be cleaner or something.

[PickelledEggs]

They charge for toilet use? That's ridiculous.

[Aupmanyav]

Interesting. I wonder if this is about the fact that they are 1.27 billion.

That was only in Mumbai and a temporary phase. Mumbai has a water scarcity except during rains when the whole city is flooded. That is nature's way of cleaning Mumbai. 

[frosty]

The only times I would relieve myself outside is when I would have had no access to a restroom at all. That has happened before, I go into a line of trees, into a forest, behind shrubs, anywhere where I am concealed and do my business. That stuff happens here too, there is just way more people in India.