If you've lived in 'the heartlands' (ie. highrise public housing estates) of Singapore, this topic would ring a cluster of cathedral bells.
Every now and bloody then, upon entering a lift in these estates, you may be rudely confronted by a pool of 'water' on the floor. Not your ordinary kind, mind you, but of the variety that springs forth in showers of golden hue - URINE!
Yes, there are people running loose in this day and age that believe in easing themselves like animals when they're alone in the elevator. And of all the wide open spaces of this vast planet available for that, they just have to choose the confined space of a public lift.
What drives such anti-social behaviour completely eludes me. Here are perhaps some possibilities:
1. the thrill of being caught pants down?
2. the challenge of emptying the bladder before the elevator door next opens?
3. a sexually cathartic experience?
4. a fetish?
Whatever the reason, the practice was so rampant at one time that the authorities began installing "Urine Detection Devices" or UDDs in lifts. I'm not sure whether these photographed the culprit in action, or worse, deactivated the elevator's operation thereby detaining the subject. As it turned out over time, however, many of these 'devices' are dummies, as the golden showers continue to spout unabated to this day in brazen defiance.
thearmchairbitch posted on Feb 16, 2007
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beyondtheveil said on Feb 16, 2007....
armchair- I've never heard of this. Are they likely to urinate in other public places like sidewalks and alleyways? This I have seen many times. Whatever the case, they need a crackdown. Perhaps public exposure of the deed if caught. -
thearmchairbitch said on Feb 16, 2007....
beyond - the funny thing is, this anti-social behaviour seems confined to the elevator. It's not a problem in sidewalks/alleyways. -
secretlife said on Feb 16, 2007....
I have never heard of this either!gross! -
ALIENated said on Feb 16, 2007....
I hate public restrooms. An elevator would be totally out of the question. So here is number 5 for your list: the person is a STUPID IDIOT. They are basically saying "piss on the world". What is bad is when you step in an elevator and someone has done something like that, or farted. You ride a ways and five people get on and think you did it.
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queenparanoia said on Feb 17, 2007....
ewwwwwwww....that is so gross people who are doing this are plain stupid and crazy!!! -
thearmchairbitch said on Feb 17, 2007....
Thanks for number 5 alien. Number 6 would be SICKO. This must be one of the unique things about Singapore...by the way, Singapore's tourism promotion slogan is "Uniquely Singapore". So, ladies and gentlemen, come to Singapore for the tropical sunshine, greenery, and that unbeatable unique experience of stumbling onto a puddle of pee in a public elevator!
To be fair, you will find this behaviour only in the public housing estates, not your Shenton Way office blocks. The good thing here is we don't see graffiti at all anywhere (because you get caned if you're caught), so the puddles of pee are perhaps expressions of repressed graffiti.
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