Highway Workers Lament Increase of Human Waste

AP via Seattle PI.com ^

[marshmallow]

"Hold muh urine jug" alert!

[Puppage]

I SEE A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY HERE...

[putupon]

Sounds like they're really pissed off.

[anymouse]

Can you say migrant labor sanitary practices. At least they put it in a container, rather than on your food. :(

[never4get]

omg, this is freak'n disgusting.

[cynicom]

Simple solution, do away with humans in Washington, end of problem.

[waterstraat]

one Adams County highway cleanup crew picked up 2,666 jugs of urine

My guess is, that men are doing this, not women.

[sarasota]

Someone please help me understand why someone would whiz in a plastic jug.

[OldFriend]

People stuck in traffic jams.........

[Mr. Jeeves]

So they don't have to stop driving.

[Tijeras_Slim]

2,666 Jugs of Urine Found on Highways

Sounds like an National Endowment for the Arts project.

[BenLurkin]

. . . migrant labor sanitary practices . . .

From the same folks who leave dirty diapers in shopping carts here in California.

[Salgak]

Perhaps the answer might be "Rest Stops". With "Port-a-Potties". Once upon a time, there were many rest stops on major highways, complete with clean bathrooms, restaurants, and gas stations.

Nowadays, any public restroom facility on a highway is likely to be a (closed) office of pamphlets for tourist traps, a few snack and soda machines, often behind a "fence" of interwoven chains, and some rarely-serviced restrooms that are both inadequate for the demand, and generally filthy beyond belief.

They are, of course, run, maintained, and cleaned by Government personnel, as witnessed by the hours, condition, and filth level.

A Pity some private contractor couldn't place high-tech toilet units, like the ones they tried putting on the streets of San Francisco, and making them coin-operated or advertising supported, or both. I don't know about the rest of you, but there are times **I** would gladly drop a buck or so for a clean, roomy place to do my business while on the road. . .

[never4get]

$1,025 for anyone caught dumping such waste

Thats an expensive dump!!!!

[r9etb]

Someone please help me understand why someone would whiz in a plastic jug.

Because they don't want to stop. On long trips, my wife and I like to drive straight through the night, and have been known to have our boys pee in a jug rather than trying to last until the next exit.

We don't leave the jugs by the side of the road, though.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

2,666 Jugs of Urine Found on Highways Sounds like an National Endowment for the Arts project.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........

Donate to the DNC

[putupon]

Prostrate problem drivers

[Fangorn]

You obviously never went on a long vacation trip with my dad driving the car. Rest stops occurred when he needed to go, and I swear the man had the water storage capacity of a camel.

For me and my brother, a Folger's coffee can in the back floorboard had to suffice. Much easier to hit than that little hole in the plastic milk jug.

But we made good time...

[Johnny Gage]

Over-the-road Truck drivers would be my guess.

That way they don't need to take "potty breaks"

[luvbach1]

Laziness?