Today I had the second occasion in recent weeks to step across a stream of urine running over a sidewalk, thanks to somebody thinking that a busy sidewalk was a good place to urinate. Today it was a sidewalk along one of the busiest roads in Oxford. Last time it was on one of the busiest walkways in Oxford, just over from the Bodleian. Today it happened at about 5pm, last time right at noon (with at least a hundred people within a fifty foot radius). So in neither case was it somebody staggering home from a pub or something after a late night of drinking. My question: is this sort of behaviour more acceptable in England than in the United States or Canada? At least I’ve never witnessed somebody urinating in the middle of the day in a busy, public place at home. This sort of behaviour strikes me as just the sort of thing for which a day or two in stocks in the town centre would be suitable punishment.
Sydney
Alan Schmierer
I saw this a LOT in Italy!!! So disgusting!!!!!!
I wonder if they just don’t give out citations for that frequently, like we do in the states??
The other thought that occurred to me: public washrooms do seem a bit harder to find around here than in the U.S. Though somehow I’m not quite convinced that these weren’t local guys who would have know perfectly well where to find washrooms. And, yes, it is rather disgusting.
– Sydney