Cheltenham Festival racegoers peeing in streets face being soaked in wee by splash-back walls
CHELTENHAM Festival racegoers peeing in the streets face being sent galloping off with their trousers soaked in wee by splash-back walls.
They need to find the going tougher after dozens were seen publicly urinating in the town centre last year, a councillor says.
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Max Wilson said: ‘It is illegal, unpleasant to see and makes many people feel uncomfortable or threatened — particularly women’
Max Wilson wants walls around the course covered in hydrophobic paint so the urine is sprayed back at the bladdered culprits.
He declared a war on public weeing, saying: “It is illegal, unpleasant to see and makes many people feel uncomfortable or threatened — particularly women.
“We shouldn’t have to put up with this anymore. I’m sure the prospect of wet trousers will make people think twice.”
Splash-back paint has already protected the historic walls of Chester and those of Soho in central London.
Lib Dem Mr Wilson called on the Jockey Club, Cheltenham council and Gloucestershire Police to help Cheltenham council fund it.
He said extra loos had failed to curb the problem.
