WASHINGTON –Pee on the wrong wall in San Francisco and it just might pee on you back.
In the聽fight against聽public urination, the city’s聽public works department has聽enlisted its own walls.聽As part of a pilot program,聽the city has coated nine walls with a special paint that makes “urine spray right back onto the shoes and pants of unsuspecting relief-seekers,” 听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.
The city’s public works director told the newspaper that the idea came from聽Hamburg, Germany, where the high-tech paint was used in the St. Pauli nightclub district to prevent public urinators from peeing on walls. It’s better than payback for the German locals. It’s “pee-back time,”聽the .
It’s also 聽been called the St. Pauli Peeback.
San Francisco’s聽pee-repellent paint, Ultra-Ever Dry, is made by the Florida-based Ultra Tech International. According to the company’s website, the paint:
“… uses proprietary omniphobic technology to coat an object and create a surface chemistry and texture with patterns of geometric shapes that have 鈥減eaks鈥� or 鈥渉igh points鈥�. These high points repel water, some oils, wet concrete, and other liquids unlike any other coating.”
So how will San Francisco know if the pee-proof walls are聽working?
鈥淲e will send people to see, visually, if there are any wet signs to indicate urination has happened.,” Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru tells . “We will also use our natural nose to smell and see if urine is there. If it seems to work, we will continue it after the pilot phase ends.鈥�
Or revelers will simply find themselves another wall.
