WATCH WHERE YOU PEE.....

Have you ever walked through a parking garage only to get a strong whiff of pee? Or how about a subway station? Well, if you smell it, chances are someone has peed in those areas. The smell doesn't just appear out of nowhere! 

Well, Atlanta's MARTA rail stations are looking to put an end to the public urinations due to the overabundance of complaints about the problem. They are convincing the Rapid Transit Authority to deploy a urine-detection system in the rail station's elevators, where the odor is the strongest. The program, supposedly the first of its kind, is currently being tested in a single elevator in a Midtown Atlanta train station. It apparently uses sensors to detect when someone decided to piss somewhere between floors 2 and 3. 

According to MARTA's director of elevators and escalators, if somebody urinates in the elevator, there will be some sort of splash factor. The splash would set off of sensor. The urine detection device, or the UDD, somehow detects that the pee as it is occurring and sets off an alarm intended to bring the MARTA police and deal with the weak-bladdered prospect. 

In the month since the one test UDD was put into place (along with a sign warning people about the UDD's existence), MARTA says there has only been one incident and that elevator violator was arrested. Before the UDD, MARTA says this particular elevator was being urinated in on a daily basis.

Based on that success, MARTA will begin rolling out UDDs to the other elevators in the coming months at a cost of $10,000 a pop. I have to say that wouldn't putting cameras into those elevators be a little less cost effective? The one thing that I couldn't help to think about throughout this article is that the people going to the bathroom in these elevators might be homeless and they have no place else to go to the bathroom. I'm not saying that they should get a pass, but I can't picture a person with any sort of decency just pissing in an elevator. Then again, you have the instant asshole, just add alcohol! If they bring this to New York City, you'll see a lot of people going to jail for peeing at the train station. Just telling this story gave me the aroma of urine in my nostrils.