Please do not urinate in the lift.

[MissHooliesCardigan]

I've just visited someone in a tower block. In the foyer, there is a notice written on Local Authority paper saying,
'PLEASE DO NOT URINATE IN THE LIFT OR STAIRWELL.
Residents or visitors should not urinate in the lift or stairwell. Doing so is in breach of your tenancy agreement'.

Do people actually need this spelled out?! If you are in the lift, you must either live there or be visiting someone who lives there and, presumably, has a toilet. It's not the first time I've seen these kind of notices. Is this some kind of weird territory marking thing?

[HazelBite]

Why do people piss in lifts?
Its obviously the same people who piss on the floor beside the toilet in our office and also crapped on the floor.
This is an office full of "professional" people

[allegretto]

Someone did a poo in our block's lift. Grim.

[LurkingHusband]

I'm not advocating caning, but in general I wish UK politicians gave as much of a fuck about maintaining public places

Whatever happened to the Broken Windows initiative ? Did it ever get a chance in the UK ?

[bigbluebus]

I had a friend who worked for the Post Office years ago. One of her jobs was to go around and empty the coin boxes in phone boxes. The coin was often wet - people not only piss in phone boxes but actually into the slot where the money went - could only be men! She had to count the money

[Shannyfanny]

the alarm and locking the lift is a good idea if only it could be here, I no longer live in an estate but it was just disgusting plus people leaving rubbish on the floor so the foxes get at it, still happens now though because my neighbours believe junk mail and trash will just pick itself up.

[maggienolia]

We had a lift in our work building where someone decorated the walls with their bogies.
Filthy sods.
And someone left a poo in the corridor.

[Arkwright]

My grandmothers flats have a lift. They regularly have piss, vomit, spit, spilt beer and even faeces a few months ago. It is an enclosed block so it must be one of the residents or their visitors.

[Piffpaffpoff]

Someone shat in one of the lifts at my work once. I mean, who DOES that?

[MissHooliesCardigan]

What's the Broken Windows initiative?

[LurkingHusband]

What's the Broken Windows initiative?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

It's one of those so-obvious-why-are-we-even-talking-about-it things ...

Basically a view that peoples behaviour is influenced by their environment. So if a location looks uncared for, people will treat it badly. Coined by most policemens observations that the second a window is broken in a neighbourhood, the longer it takes to get fixed (if at all) the the quicker that place will decline.

Same for graffiti - if you leave it for all to see, people will assume the area is unpoliced, and enter a spiral of vandalism.

[FeliciaJollygoodfellow]

Seriously where have you been that you've never been in a lift or stairwell that stank of piss?!

They don't put hose signs up in car parks but they bloody should....

[Pettywoman]

Remember the old red phone boxes? They always stank of piss and fags.

[BirthdayBetty]

I lived in a tower block once, the lift and stairwells always smelt of piss 😷. When my neighbour got married we 'held' the lift to clean it and put down a dust sheet on the floor to protect her dress.