Urine Deflectors in Fleet Street of the Early 1800s

[gus_massa]

http://catsmeatshop.blogspot.com/2013/07/urine-deflectors-in-fleet-street.html

[plug]

A present-day Irish solution to "al-fresco urination": electrify your shop front.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/shops-shock-and-awe-pla...

[jszymborski → plug]

Unless you've a nozzle on your knob, you won't achieve the laminar flow required to have an uninterrupted stream to carry the electricity from electrode to knob.

QED via Mythbusters

[plug → jszymborski]

Interesting. Would that depend on how close you were to the source?

Either way, I assume - crucially for the shop owner - most backed-up, drunken revellers would be unaware of this :)

[stdgy]

In fact, kahirsch linked to it in that thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9203253

[icebraining]

Considering this post is from 2013, I expect it isn't.