It’s a common problem we all face when on a night out – when you need to have a pee but can’t because you’re outside/in a cab/on a bus. Most of us can attest to finding a back alley somewhere and letting rip when you just couldn’t hold it in any longer (well, the men can anyway). This is why some bright spark in Nottingham has run around whacking great big ‘PEE HERE’ signs all over the city.

OK, so they are a little bit more eloquant by saying “Public Urination Permitted After 7.30pm”, but it is close enough! The council has responded to all this in traditional flappy-hands oh-no mode, by telling everyone that they SHOULD NOT be peeing free as they like and that the signs are in fact fakes. Well hot damn, didn’t realise that!

They also recommend if anyone sees one of these signs that they contact the council so it can be arranged to be taken down. I presume the reason you can’t take it down yourself is because you need specially trained sticky-sign-taker-downers to perform the task, under the supervision of a health and safety officer and all of it must be recorded by the council’s penpushers. People, this is where your taxes go!

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