Urine Deflectors in Fleet Street of the Early 1800s

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36 pointsgus_massa5 comments

A present-day Irish solution to "al-fresco urination": electrify your shop front.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/shops-shock-and-awe-pla...

Unless you've a nozzle on your knob, you won't achieve the laminar flow required to have an uninterrupted stream to carry the electricity from electrode to knob.

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Interesting. Would that depend on how close you were to the source?

Either way, I assume - crucially for the shop owner - most backed-up, drunken revellers would be unaware of this :)

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