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…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?

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10 replies on “Urine is Sterile”

  2. Urine 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.

  3. Whatever 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.

  4. How 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.

  5. @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.

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