Haha look, we made the man who sleeps in the alley pee on himself!

What a great world -_-

And - well I was going to say surprisingly, but its really not - the post I saw just before this was about transit use and a fear of violence. Which, of course, is ultimately due to not addressing the unhoused.

While generally a promising approach, in the case of St Pauli, Hamburg it might be different. Yes there are lots of homeless people, but there are also LOTS of randoms going there to get drunk and be on their worst behavior. Its part of the spirit of that place.

Anyways "not by authority" is bs imo. An electrical fence is also "direct feedback", or razor barbed wire and you wouldn't dare calling those non-authority

Then they shouldn't be pissing on walls.

If there was a toilet right there, do you think they would still choose the wall?

If they would still choose the wall, do you think the paint is going to deter them?

How will people even know that the paint is piss-splashing paint?

Will people not immediately change their piss angle as soon as they get splash back?

Yeah, not everything is about the homeless. Are there actually many homeless in Munich, compared to rude tourists?

Not nearly enough, especially near the transit.

If people are still peeing in the street there, then it's not enough.

Most of these are not free, according to your second link.

Pii Tanks?

In Montréal all our major parks have washroom facilities and if they for some reason don’t there’s still gunna be a port-o-potty nearby. There should definitely be two near the beach but the point still stands that you can definitely have nice things, or at least something stopping the majority of public urination. And hell, I’m sure that we have issues with them here, too, but it’s a small price to pay to have a civilized city so whatever.

Longer term the city just needs to adopt any of the myriad studied ways homeless and poverty has been reduced in other places which will also reduce the danger to these things getting broken.

Back in my home country they had these washrooms that were basically giant urinals covered by these side walls so they would get hosed down but they were not for women.

I have seen places in Europe that pull out these portable urinal things and put them all over the entertainment district on Friday nights to prevent drunk dudes pissing all over and it seems to work well

A lot of Europe charges to use them though, whoch i find weird. Imo they should be funded by public budgets the way libraries, school buses, roads etc are.

Like, of ya gotta pee, ya gotta pee. If you gotta pee and you don't have any Euros on you, what else are you supposed to fucking do?? Literally what are your options at that point?

I'm sure some people would do this anyway but I suspect a lot of them can't/won't pay for a public toilet and aren't close enough to a private one. It's a UX issue

Not so much in London, and usually you need to pay for the public ones.

Clearly not enough easily accessible toilets for people to not pee on the sides of buildings. If the problem is so big that you're considering designing hydrophobic pisser punisher paint you clearly don't have enough places for people to pee.

I've been to a very large capital in Europe recently, there's been a whole three toilets when I needed one, ranging from 15 to 30 minutes away, and the best part is when I got to them, all were inaccessible because they are located inside of the park that closes doors at 18:00 (before that, in fact). The toilets are even marked 24h on the map, very convenient.

So yeah, even not considering drunk people, there are not nearly enough toilets in a lot of places.

Yeah, people forget that people is the reason we cannot have nice things.

In The Netherlands, we don't have them, but you can piss at most bars and restaurants. Still the drunk guys choose to urinate at the walls, in the plants, in the bicycles, in the stairways of parking lots. It's gross and annoying.

I welcomed it in the sense I just laughed for 20 seconds

I've heard the blue light thing before, but is it really that much of a thing? When we look for veins, I don't even see color anymore. It's tourniquet, squeeze, fondle your armpit, stab you.

Or better yet, directly onto the ground beside the wall...

The ground is just concrete not painted duh

Couldn't they just... have some (more) public toilets, or have any existing public toilets open for more hours?

But you do know that you can just not piss up against a wall, and just piss on the ground.. right? Or better yet, make a game of it, and piss on the wall at different angles. You and your mates playing piss wars against the wall and trying to avoid each other splashback would be of interest to a lot of pissheads on the way home after finishing the kabab.