Once The Most Beautiful City In The World, Paris Has Now Installed Exposed Outdoor Urinals

Paris was once one of the most beautiful places on earth.

I remember my first visit to Paris – I was probably around 13 – and I was on CLOUD NINE. The art, the food, the culture… it truly seemed like a city straight out of a love poem.

The Paris I fell in love with less than 15 years ago is not today’s Paris.

It’s heartbreaking… and it’s reality.

Well, is it really a shock that the same people who would literally burn the city down would pee in the street?

No, no it’s not. The city of Paris is trying to do something about their little “public urination” problem… and some locals are appalled.

The city has installed “Eco-friendly and ENTIRELY EXPOSED urinals along the city’s streets.

Lovely.

According to the New York Post:
One of the bright red “urinoirs” installed on the Ile Saint-Louis, not far from Notre Dame Cathedral and overlooking tourist boats passing on the Seine, has caused particular indignation.

I know that EXACT spot… and yes. This is BEYOND messed up. Your beautiful family vacation picture isn’t quiiiite so scenic with a P*SSER in it, is it?

Locals have written to ae town hall to demand its removal and are planning a petition.

“There’s no need to put something so immodest and ugly in such an historic spot,” said Paola Pellizzari, 68, owner of a Venetian art store.

“It’s beside the most beautiful townhouse on the island, the Hotel de Lauzun, where Baudelaire lived,” she said, referring to the 19th-century French poet.

Think about that.

There is now a public urinal in front of Baudelaire’s home.

Paris is burning… in more ways than one.

She feared the urinal, installed around 20 meters (22 yards) from a primary school, “incites exhibitionism.”

PERRRRFECT!

It’s right next to an elementary school! BECAUSE WHY NOT?!

The designer of the “Uritrottoir” — a combination of the French words for urinal and pavement — said it offered an “eco solution to public peeing.” The device is essentially a box with an opening in the front and a floral display on top, containing straw that transforms into compost for use in parks and gardens.

But Ile Saint-Louis locals said the receptacle, with no stall around it of any kind, could blight their ultra-chic neighborhood.

“It’s horrible,” said the 50-year-old owner of a nearby art gallery, who declined to give his name.

“We’re told we have to accept this but this is absolutely unacceptable. It’s destroying the legacy of the island. Can’t people behave?”

NO, no they can’t.

I thought that was excessively clear.

Local mayor Ariel Weil insisted the devices were necessary. Paris authorities have rolled out four of the stand-up loos in spots where public peeing has been a problem, and a fifth is planned.

“If we don’t do anything, then men are just going to pee in the streets,” he said. “If it is really bothering people, we will find another location.

I don’t think this is what Parisians meant when they said it was time to “do something.”