Nicole Richie warms to lamppost dog urinals
Mr Brush
They must be... #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 14:16 GMT

...taking the piss.
Boom boom!
Sampler
Maybes she's looking to commision #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 14:16 GMT

A handbag version - afterall isn't that the cool place for the vacous ninnies to keep their pooch these days?
Anonymous Coward
And also #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 14:48 GMT

A useful place for a lady to use when caught short after an evening getting pished. No quickly diving to the nearest bushes for them!
Coat/door
Dan
@Mr Brush #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 14:48 GMT

i bet you're pretty chuffed with that, eh?
Anonymous Coward
I see... #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 15:06 GMT

I imagine it's not just dogs of the canine variety that would benefit from this invention...
AndyC
better idea... #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 15:06 GMT

The lamp-post already has an electricity supply - simply deground the metal casing, supply a smaller 9v charge to it and quite literally - bang, no more dog pee...
Or birds on top of them...
And for the drunken idiots trying to climb them, well, it runs off of mains supplies, so can always turn it up...
Think I'm onto a winner here...
Justin Case
But Seriously #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 15:37 GMT

Where is the Paris Hilton angle?
John Macintyre
@ Justin Case #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 16:25 GMT

Nicole Richie <-> Simple Life <-> Paris Hilton <-> Simpletons with dog bags
and lets not link the blonde hotel lady with dogs now, she's a real human (some might say)
Anonymous Coward
@ Mr Brush #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 16:56 GMT

Barking....
Anonymous Coward
Ammonia #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 17:20 GMT

They use ammonia to help keep latex adhesive liquid, yeah? And what does stale urine decay into? Oh yes! Ammonia. So they're going to last a good while these little rubber cups you're going to have at just the right height to catch chihuaha (cannot be *bothered* to look up the spelling for the stupid, pointles little rats) *or* Great Dane pee when they cock a leg?
A Teflon sheath for the bottom three feet, perhaps but a "cup" made of rubber? The inventor would be off his swede if he lived in any other country.
A J Stiles
Easier solution #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 17:20 GMT

If the authorities actually stumped up a bit of ratepayers' money and bought a can or two of paint once a year, they could protect their lamp posts for much longer. There's no shortage of young offenders doing Community Service.
@AC, 3rd post: Ladies are fine just going in the street anyway. Haven't you ever heard of squatters' rights?
mahoney
Are we still living in the freakin dark-ages?? #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 18:42 GMT
Lampposts?
It's 2007 for goodness sake. We should all have night-vision-infrared ocular implants by now. (not to mention robot butlers, hover-boots and personal rocket cars)
Eileen Bach
(Sp)arking up the wrong tree #
Posted Thursday 22nd November 2007 21:51 GMT
My cuncils cleverer than wot this wun woz cos they plantid trees on ther vergis wich the dogs prefur to snif.
Andy S
why not make money from it #
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 05:57 GMT
Just make a ridiculously high, on the spot, fine for anyone caught allowing their dog to pee against a lamp post. I assume the US has a similar policy for a dog crapping on the pavement without the owner cleaning it up.
problem solved!
Anonymous Coward
Will this... #
Posted Friday 23rd November 2007 08:35 GMT

...help the Wii shortage?