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Urine is Sterile
…so this occurance reported by Hot Tipper Jessica is nowhere near as bad as what happens annually to bike seats at this. But still:
When I was walking out of the Olympic Athletic Center towards Ballard Ave around 8:40 pm, I saw a homeless man standing strangely close to a locked-up bike. Once I walked closer, I noticed that he was drenching the middle section of the bike (including the seat) with his pee stream. Bummer. Maybe I should have left a note for the owner.
Dear Jessica: Thank you for noticing and sharing.
Everyone else: Should Jessica have left a note for the bike’s owner?
Comments (10)
She should have kicked the bum in the balls.
Posted by Rotten666 | September 30, 2008 11:01 AMUrine is only sterile if the person doesn't have a urinary tract infection. And people who are malnourished are more likely to have those sorts of opportunistic infections.
I recommend a breed ban on Homeless.
Posted by Dr. Savage Mudede | September 30, 2008 11:13 AMWhatever happened to direct action? Why did she not yell "Hey asshole, stop pissing on that bike!"? she could have done it from a safe distance. There were probably other people around.
If she had left a note would she have written "homeless person", "bum", "asshole" or something else?
The fact that she did nothing then wrote in because she felt a residual guilt is very strange.
Posted by inkweary | September 30, 2008 11:14 AMHow I miss passive-agressive Seattle life; here in Chicago nobody would have written anything to anyone to ease their conscience. The bum would have been completely ignored, unless it was a messenger's bike, whereupon the first messenger to notice would have promptly kicked the bum in his back as he rode by.
Posted by Banna | September 30, 2008 11:19 AM@3 -- I strongly suspect the allegedly homeless man WAS engaging in "direct action" toward a particular offending cyclist no longer in the field of view.
Posted by RonK, Seattle | September 30, 2008 11:28 AMWhat? No option for "let the poor slob find out on his own when the smell of pee hits his nose" ?
Posted by Carol | September 30, 2008 12:30 PMI don't think you need to leave a note - the urine will advertise its presence quite effectively.
Posted by Greg | September 30, 2008 12:51 PMI would leave a note but only if he pooped on the bike. The note would say "Have a nice day!"
Posted by Vince | September 30, 2008 1:42 PMWas is a fixie? I'll need to know before I can vote.
Posted by brian | September 30, 2008 1:44 PM@9 for the win.
But, seriously, whoever owns that bike needs to relube the chain. Pee'll corrode the shit out of it...
Posted by Bike Maintenance Is No Joke | September 30, 2008 2:31 PMComments Closed
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