Public Urination -- in the Air and in London

I posted last week about the man who urinated into a barf bag during a flight in which the flight attendant wouldn't let him use the lavatory. Today at the WashPo "Travel Log" they're asking for reader comments. They are going overwhelmingly in favor of the pisser. Typical comment:

What did they want the poor guy to do? Was he supposed to pee in his pants while sitting there. Seems to me he did them a favor by not ruining their seat if they weren't going to let him use the lavatory.

Airlines suck.

And:

It's bad enough when you have to navigate super crowded seating and crowded aisles just to get to the lav...and wait. That's not the problem. The problem seems to be a greater preponderance of airline personnel with authoritarian attitudes meant to control 'the herd'. They call us "pax". Jet Blue 'imprisoned' hundreds recently. Airliners 'forced down' by idiotic exchanges between passengers and their jailers... Let's grow up, people.

I'm also with the pisser. It seems to me he had little choice.

But if you're bothered by discrete public urination, you should probably avoid London, where they've installed open-air urinals in popular nightspots (and I've availed myself of one of them, avoiding an even more embarrassing incident).

According to this story:

"Since the trial began in July, usage has increased from approximately 500 men on the first weekend, rising to more than 1,400 men who are now using the urinals," she said on Monday.

The men, she said, are "producing a staggering 95 gallons of urine every weekend".

I wonder who they got to do the count and measure the output. If I do the math right, that's a little more than a half a gallon per user.

A bit more than would fit into an airline barf bag, dontcha think?