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Re:How to Take a Walk by smutticus on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @05:31AM (#1590970)
No one ever looks up. No really. No one ever looks up.

I used to have a balcony over a very crowded alley with constant foot traffic. I would stand there quietly and watch people think they were alone in this alley all the time.

Drunk people were the best. One corner of the alley was constantly getting pee'd in so they installed a metal skirt that bounced the pee back on the pee'r. You could watch drunk people pee in that corner then walk away with a wet pant leg without ever noticing. Hilarious. And not once in the 3 years I lived there did someone look up.

Re:How to Take a Walk by AndyKelley on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @07:23AM (#1591141)
I think I can remember three different times I've decided to look up and I saw someone watching me. I waved "hello" to them and continued on.
Re:How to Take a Walk by cconstantine on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @08:43PM (#1593427)
Oddly enough if you play through Portal with commentary on they talk about this constantly. Test players never looked up and they had to do elaborate things with the level design to simply get people to look up.
Re:How to Take a Walk by dlnovell on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @04:04PM (#1592803)
hahaha, that's hilarious.

1) It doesn't solve the problem at all as the drunks don't even notice the deterrent 2) If the drunks were aware enough to notice, they could simply pee at an angle to avoid backsplash - but I imagine they'd be too drunk to think of that simple solution