Someone peed in the water fountain

[Primer]

What does it say that the first thing in my head was, "Well, at least he pissed where there was a drain."?

dunno, but I was thinking similarly. At least it's a drain with running water.

[Stryker One]

Could have been a bigger mess

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/433478/foam_fountain/

[dendawg]

But do they drink from pissing fountains?

[Andara Bledin]

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/433478/foam_fountain/

Just an FYI, but don't put bubble mix in fountains or hot tubs. Sure, it's fun, and it can look really cool... but from what I understand, it can cost a ton in maintenance fees.

^-.-^

[PepperElf]

pissing in the drinking water fountain.

He got citation for public intoxication and defacing property.

sounds like the giant drinking fountain i saw in oslo. it was pretty and made of stone
people from my ship drank from it but i didn't touch it
found out later locals pissed in it sometimes


can he also get charged with the costs for sanitizing it too?
heck might have to replace it technically... some health codes don't let you keep items like that once they've contained human bodily waste

[depechemodefan]

Im frankly surprised your spineless managers allowed the cops to be called.

The city pays for an actual cop to be at the library. Sometimes we don't have a cop because no one volunteered, but Sat. we did. The manager I hate the most got stuck doing paperwork over the incident, hee.

can he also get charged with the costs for sanitizing it too?
heck might have to replace it technically... some health codes don't let you keep items like that once they've contained human bodily waste

pht! There are parents whose kids spill juice on the keyboards and they don't get charged for ruining them.

About the only thing we charge people for is ruined books/cds/dvds but as you guess people caught returning ruined say, "but it was like that when I borrowed it!" :eye-roll:

One cw told me the story about how years ago one patron pissed all over a copy machine. No one knew if it was because the machine was crap and he was making a statement or the guy was just drunk.

[Rubystars]

Three things put me off of drinking from water fountains.

1. Seeing kids put gum on the part where the water comes out

2. Seeing people put their mouths directly on where the water comes out, covering it in slobber

3. A disgusting guy I saw keep gargling water and spitting back into the water fountain.

[depechemodefan]

Speaking of water fountains, I had a patron complain about how one starts off normal but then trickles down. She said, "I'm not putting my mouth on the spigot!" Um, there are 4 water fountains on every floor, and 5 floors of public water fountains. You don't have to use that one fountain, esp. since there is another one right next to it. Note, it wasn't the fountain that was pissed on.

She wanted to speak with "someone". I was going to get the head maintenance guy but I couldn't find him. I asked her if she would want to fill out a complaint form. She said:

"I don't want to fill out a form. You people never get back to me."

I wonder what she meant by "you people" [/sarcasm] Honestly, I know she means the people who work in the library, but I just hate that phrase.

But I finally found a manager.

[Peppergirl]

I wonder what she meant by "you people" [/sarcasm] Honestly, I know she means the people who work in the library, but I just hate that phrase.

I hate the 'you people' too. 'You people' booked my flight wrong'. UGH.

Seriously, I am shocked your management allowed the cops to be called. I mean, they won't even let you call them on people viewing porn and cussing loudly, even when good patrons are offended, right? That BLEW my mind.

[depechemodefan]

Update:

The cop who arrested the guy found out (I don't know if the guy told him or the cop finds out when they incarcerate him) that he has HIV?AIDS. Granted, I don't think anyone will get HIV from drinking from the fountain, esp. since it was cleaned afterward, but all my coworkers are acting like the CDC should come down here.

[Andara Bledin]

Granted, I don't think anyone will get HIV from drinking from the fountain, esp. since it was cleaned afterward, but all my coworkers are acting like the CDC should come down here.

The CDC uses bleach. Hospitals use bleach. If bleach was used, it's as clear as it's going to get.

^-.-^

[depechemodefan]

My mom has C-def and I use bleach. Actually, I like the smell of bleach.

They got a supervisor for the maintenance workers who came after 6pm to clean it with industrial stuff. Or so I am told. But I think it got cleaned with bleach.

[XCashier]

Three things put me off of drinking from water fountains.

I can add a fourth to your list. Back in High School, a certain clique was big on chewing tobacco, and would stick the used wads everywhere, including in the drinking fountain spigots.

I wish we could round up all the people who insist upon acting like assholes in public -- urinating in drinking fountains, smearing crap on bathroom walls, SCs, etc. -- and ship them out to some hostile planet.

[crazylegs]

This doesn't suprise me at all. A couple of years back the county lost its sole water supply due to flooding (water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink) and to supply 839,000 people water bowsers were placed on streets. Various tales of people urinating in them were told, it wouldn't suprise me if they were true.

[karma_gypsy]

I can add a fourth to your list. Back in High School, a certain clique was big on chewing tobacco, and would stick the used wads everywhere, including in the drinking fountain spigots.

I was going to add the same thing ... I've passed by a couple of drinking fountains in the hallways that had a big ol' wad of chew in the 'bowl' ... it was really gross ... (there was even some chew stuck to an outside wall .... )