zondag 28 december 2008

City hit by ‘legal to pee’ prank

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/7798194.stm

Summary:
Pranksters in Nottingham have put up signs in Nottingham which said that it’s legal to urinate in certain public places. They look very real and official with a toilet on the sign and the logo of Nottingham City Counsel. Nottingham City Counsel is not that happy with the action of the pranksters because it’s still illegal to urinate in public. A spokesman said that people who prosecute this will make an offence. The Counsel of Nottingham is now taking away all signs and asked the residents to contact the city counsel when they spot new signs so that they can be removed.

Opinion:
I think the pranksters did a good job to make this issue public in Nottingham. Especially because they designed the signs in a professional way so that people took the signs serious. I don’t think it would be a bad idea to make certain public places where people have the opportunity to urinate or make some of those places legal in the weekend when a lot of people go out. At those moments people urinate the most so I think placing public urinate places only in the weekend could be a solution to prevent nuisance about this issue. I think when public places like that exist in the city people will use them instead of an arbitrary wall.

1 opmerking:

salehokka zei

It is funny that the pranksters have put those signs, I don’t think that they are serious with this action. But I am disagree with you that urinating can be legal in same places, because something like that will cause bad smell. I think that the city counsel must offer more free public toilet instead.