Raw Data: A Decade's Worth of Public Urination Citations, Visualized

By D.J. Byrnes on December 2, 2014 at 1:00 pm
he'll yeah public urination
via @DispatchAlerts
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Welp, shut down Pulitzer voting and ship everyone to The Columbus Dispatch. This is investigative journalism I can get behind:

From Allison Manning of The Columbus Dispatch:

When you gotta go, you gotta go.

That appears to be the case for nearly 1,500 people who were cited for using the streets, parking lots and sidewalks of Columbus as their restroom during the past decade, according to Franklin County Municipal Court citations.

“You don’t buy beer, you rent it,” explained Cmdr. Chris Bowling, who oversees Zone 4 for Columbus police. That area includes University District bars along N. High Street, a hot spot for urinating outside. Late at night when the bars are full, “everyone is hunting for a toilet.”

The graphic truly slays me, because let's face it: Not even I would have guessed High Street was such a piss-soaked thoroughfare.  


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