Ruckus over fine for men with poor aim in toilet
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People with a poor aim face fines if they miss their mark when using public toilets in Shenzhen, officials said, provoking an online derision over how the rule will be enforced.
The penalty will apply to those who urinate outside the bowl at public facilities in Guangdong Province’s Shenzhen City, which borders Hong Kong.
Draft regulations did not specify a minimum quantity of spillage required to be classed as a violation.
“Such uncouth use of a public toilet will lead to a fine of 100 yuan (US$16) by authorities” from next month, a city government official said yesterday.
Netizens on Weibo social network poured scorn on the new measures, raising the prospect of hordes of toilet inspectors being deployed to inspect performance.
“A number of new civil servant positions will be created. There will be a supervisor behind every urinating person to see whether the pee is straight,” wrote one poster.
Another added: “Very good measures. I expect they can create 20 jobs on average for every public toilet.”
Officials with the department responsible for details of the rules could not immediately be reached for comment yesterday.
The measures have also provoked more considered debate with one user arguing: “It’s better to have no rule than a rule that cannot be implemented.”
The Beijing Times carried a commentary calling into question the necessity of making a law on something that “can be simply guided by social consensus.”
“The law should maintain the most basic restraint about the people’s private life,” wrote Shu Li, a legal worker.
Chinese toilet discipline can be very wayward, with pictures of people defecating in public appearing on Weibo.
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