Urinal Ice
One night during the symposium in Costa Rica a bunch of us went out for dinner in San Jose. When we got there I needed to go to the little turtler's room and discovered that the urinals (troughs actually) were packed with crushed ice.
I'd never seen such a thing so took the news back to the table. I didn't know if this was something normal or unusual. As it turns out no one else at the table had seen it either. So of course each of the males at the table then needed to "take care of business" in the little turtler's room.
I discovered at least two other bathrooms in Costa Rica with ice in the urinals (one at La Paz Falls), so I figure that there must be a reason for it. There are the obvious possibilities: constant water flow, reduce bacterial growth; but were those really the reasons?
The obvious recourse at that point was to check google when I got home :) Check it out for yourself...
http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/4880
http://www.urinal.net/oreillys/
http://hawk.winshop.com.au/pipermail/fullbore/Week-of-Mon-20021007/ 001516.html
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Alot of places in Wi do that to and I remembered to search Google. Your article the first to pull up. Im about to read the links you have posted. Thanks for the source.
Posted by: Nolon | January 24, 2006 02:33 PM