I’ll tell you where. Down the side street beside the Travelodge in Ancoats. Every time I walk down there I always see a big ol’ people log. They smell too. Especially after it’s rained for a few days and the poo has started to disintegrate and then it gets warm and sunny. Mmm, the smell of hobo intestines.
There aren’t any free public toilets in Manchester, not that I know of anyway. You have to pay to use the toilets at the train station and they have these weird huge brown cubicles (a fitting colour) dotted around the city centre but not on the main streets, mostly around The Big Issue offices. They usually cost about 20p. 20p! That’s 51.322 New Zealand cents! When you don’t have a home and you don’t have a job, I guess you have no choice but to run down to Spear Street and release your turtle into the wild. Which I will find.
This also poses a question because there is never toilet paper, or any other type of paper, near these poops. Unless there are poopy bits of toilet paper flying around the city (somewhat likely), I think it is more likely that there are homeless people walking the streets with dags and skidmarks.
This reminds me of a question I heard a few days ago – how do blind people know when they’ve finished wiping?
Not making public toilets available for free is just another attempt to drive homeless people out of city centres and out of the public perception. You neatly point out how very much convenience this adds for all involved parties. The homeless get even worse sanitary conditions, you get poo under your shoe (is this the long anticipated return of Ani-acid-pen?
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Similar concepts such as stronger police presence in centres are employed to drive off other nuisances such as drug dealers. They are all driven to the suburbs, hooray. A totally perverse idea of how to solve “problems” if you ask me. I live in a rather wealthy suburb, and a couple of weeks ago I took a nightly walk for a smoke and from a distance saw an elderly lady serving herself from a large garbage container. Where are these people going to sleep now it gets colder? There are no large heat exhausts in suburbs and much less open shelter. People will either freeze or possibly be forced to break property rights which will take them straight to jail. Now isn’t that just per-fect?
Present society is going to choke on its own cancerous ulcer of total conformity trying to displace everything it feels no sympathy for. Soon. Ever heard of France these days?
one time i walked outside of my office building to find a homeless guy shitting in one of those big cement flower-pots you would find on the street.
he did not wipe.