I see these sealed bottles of urine everywhere, side of the street, piles of them in an empty field my kid likes playing in, even piles of them on the beach back away from the sand.
WHY?!
Doesn’t it just make it nastier for the eventual cleaner than if you had just pissed in the field or some bushes? Someone is going to have to open them and dump them somewhere, if you throw the whole thing in the trash trucks around here have a built in compactor and it leaves a juice trail in the street, so the bottles will just pop and leave nasty week old urine everywhere.
Seriously the better option here seems to be piss in the field or bush, or at least empty the urine into a gutter or storm drain instead of putting the cap back on.
I think the thing about pissing in a bottle in the truck is that it can be done without getting out of the truck. Time is money. It’s not about what is going to be easier on anyone else.
Pretty sure littering is illegal, but even so piss in the bottle in your truck and then dump it out in a gutter and throw the bottle away is an option too right?
Maybe things are different in T&T, but in the US, the piss in a bottle thing is pretty much used only by professional truck drivers. It’s a way to pee while still moving and earning money, since they’re only paid while the truck is moving.
Then once the bottle is full it gets pitched out the truck window because spending time to dispose of it in any more civilized fashion is A) civilized, which they are not, and B) costs them money because it takes time they could be spending instead earning money.
pilots use pee-packs that gel the liquid for easy disposal or reusable jugs that are emptied out. it’s tough to pull over at 10,000 feet. Don’t see any reason why professional truckers wouldn’t use the same products.
that works for all manner of trash. I’ve never seen a truck driver throw anything from a truck. If they’re at a stop then empty the bottles in the bathroom and pitch them.
At least in the cases where it was obviously not by the road , or at least not by a high way I assumed the only reason for using a bottle was not wanting to dump pee on the ground for some reason. Like a bottle full is so much more courteous.
I guess someone could have dumped them from elsewhere not wanting to deal with them.
FWIW Public urination laws are not enforced here, you’ll see tons of building walls with “don’t pee here!” signs. Which makes the bottles even more puzzling in the tree line at a beach for instance.
I’ve seen this in the USA too, I assumed it was truckers there.
In a (non-motorized) bike magazine it recommended peeing in a bottle as a way to legally releave oneself on a road/urban bike trip. Basically to place the bottle under your compression shorts while in use as to not expose anything and avoid any fine for public urination. IIRC it specifically went into the legalities and this was the way to keep it legal, even though it is obvious what you are doing. I don’t recall it mentioning what to do with the bottle after one filled it up.
Some drivers and/or truckers don’t worry about legality much. Personally my choice has been (the few times I’ve used the option) to cap the bottle and drop it in the trash at my next stop. Saves that “I know what you did” look from others if you try to empty the bottle out in the restroom.
In places without toilets I’d much rather that people peed into a bottle than that they peed onto the concrete or against the wall of a building, where it’s going to stink for a long long time to come. Bushes or trees or patches of grass or dirt would be preferable but cities don’t often have them in convenient places.
In some venues in the US, if you are caught engaging in public urination, you may have to register as someone who committed a sex crime, believe it or not. (info @ link be out of date)
“Trucker bombs” have been a problem for getting on to 40 years or so.
Time truly is money. Long-haul drivers are granted something like a 30 minute break when driving for eight hours, but when you’re driving a big truck that has to be parked in some far corner of a rest area or even at a truck stop, just pulling off the highway and parking will consume a fair chunk of that time, leaving little time to get lunch, coffee, whatever.
Worse off are local delivery drivers. The UPS guy who brings boxes to your house, for example. Their day is insanely micro-managed, timed and tracked with GPS. Your UPS guy is allotted somewhere in the area of three minutes per delivery to arrive, park, find your box, run up to the door with it and run back to the truck. If they need to pee mid-shift, they’re up against the clock, and stopping somewhere along the way to pee can lead to penalties. So, now you know what they’re doing when they disappear in the back of the truck…
One icky twist to it is meth addicts scavenging the bottles on the hopes that the truckers who tossed the bottles were also on meth. Apparently, a substantial amount of the drug passes through in urine.
Unfortunately, meth addicts aren’t known for their housekeeping skills, so they don’t tend to properly dispose of or recycle the bottles they collect.
Isn’t peeing into a bottle also public urination?