Peeing on the hard shoulder

[Eighteeteewhy]

On two occasions today I saw blokes doing their business on the hard shoulder of motorways. If youve got kids I can sort of understand, although I wouldn't risk it myself, fair enough if there's an accident and you've been stuck a while.
But in normal traffic, where there's junctions and services every few miles there are better options.

What are people's view on this?

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[TheHeretic]

People do it all the time here. There are petrol stations with full cafe/restaurants, toilets etc every 10 miles or so, bit people still insist stopping to have a pee. There really is no excuse. I've even seen people curling a number 2 in an adjoining field.

Ergh.

[redstu]

Are you in France?

[Disco You]

Absolute madness.

[4key]

Wheres the fun in that? Youre supposed to stand on the bridge and do it on the cars below.

[DocJock]

redstu said:

Are you in France?

Is it really that hard to click on someone's profile?

[LaurasOtherHalf]

DocJock said:

redstu said:

Are you in France?

Is it really that hard to click on someone's profile?

it's been ages since i saw a whoosh parrot

on topic, i've a mate who has a bladder like a thimble, he's definitely "one of those". friggin annoying on the way from carlisle to the ring

[mybrainhurts]

Spotted an ambulance this morning in Dover. It was parked up, a few yards past a roundabout, and a man was standing about ten yards away on a grassy embankment, having a pee.

He wasn't wearing an ambulance uniform, but the cab was empty so I assume he was driving it. Mechanic, maybe?

Quite sensibly, he had switched on the blue strobes as a hazard marker...

[Monty Zoomer]

mybrainhurts said:

Spotted an ambulance this morning in Dover. It was parked up, a few yards past a roundabout, and a man was standing about ten yards away on a grassy embankment, having a pee.

He wasn't wearing an ambulance uniform, but the cab was empty so I assume he was driving it. Mechanic, maybe?

Quite sensibly, he had switched on the blue strobes as a hazard marker...

Maybe the patient was on fire on the embankment and the ambulance man had to put him out before he could take him to hospital.

[Methuselah]

mybrainhurts said:

Spotted an ambulance this morning in Dover. It was parked up, a few yards past a roundabout, and a man was standing about ten yards away on a grassy embankment, having a pee.

He wasn't wearing an ambulance uniform, but the cab was empty so I assume he was driving it. Mechanic, maybe?

Quite sensibly, he had switched on the blue strobes as a hazard marker...

Or a possible skidmark warning

[Riley Blue]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

on topic, i've a mate who has a bladder like a thimble, he's definitely "one of those". friggin annoying on the way from carlisle to the ring

Just you wait until you have prostate problems....

[22rgt B Squadron]

4key said:

Wheres the fun in that? Youre supposed to stand on the bridge and do it on the cars below.

Actually seen a few years ago some guy taking a dump over the edge of a footbridge running across a stretch of dual carriageway..not a particularly nice sight..

[kowalski655]

Worse are the lines of 20+ footie fans who decamp from a coach and line up at the verge.
My wife does tend to have a look though

[calibrax]

kowalski655 said:

Worse are the lines of 20+ footie fans who decamp from a coach and line up at the verge.
My wife does tend to have a look though

Be careful, she could have a stroke. If she can reach...

[kowalski655]

I dont drive THAT slowly

[SeldomSeenKid]

kowalski655 said:

Worse are the lines of 20+ footie fans who decamp from a coach and line up at the verge.

I have to confess to doing this.

[russy01]

Just beep your horn and get on with it. If a man needs a piss, a man needs a piss!

[Gafferjim]

If the man with the blue flashing lights happens to stop with you, you'll stand a good chance of donating to the country's coffers, *Illegal use of the hard shoulder* (unless there are mitigating circumstances, and a skin-full the night before won't cut it.)

[icepop]

Gafferjim said:

If the man with the blue flashing lights happens to stop with you, you'll stand a good chance of donating to the country's coffers, *Illegal use of the hard shoulder* (unless there are mitigating circumstances, and a skin-full the night before won't cut it.)

As you say, "illegal use of the hard shoulder", and a copper, will, and should, do you every time on the motorway, bloody stupid. And, it's also an offence, to urinate in public in this country. We are, and thankfully will never be, like those disgusting French types.

[deltashad]

Doesn't bother me. I could count on one hand how many times I've had to do it in 40 years.

I'd like to see more ladies doing it though. Why should peeing in public be reserved for men? Wearing a suit skirt, high heels and black rimmed glasses...