San Francisco residents speculate a utility box collapsed due to dog urine
San Francisco residents speculate a utility box collapsed due to dog urine
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San Francisco residents speculate a utility box collapsed due to dog urine
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San Francisco is built around a bay. But no, it wasn't the salt water mist and the paint protecting the bare metal chipping away. It was the dog piss.
So I lived in SF for six years, and it was absolutely the dog piss that did it.
I know this because outside my apartment were two metal utility poles. One, right it outside the door, was the dog piss spot. The other, 20 feet away, was not.
Guess which one corroded and had to be replaced after three years? It was the one that absolutely reeked of dog piss right outside the door.
This is not only real, it's not the first time it happens. It's a well known problem that occurs all over the world wherever humans erect steel post and also have dogs at pets.
Yeah I live nowhere near the sea and this was the cause of a stop sign falling over near a park.
It's socially unacceptable to get mad at people for letting their dog piss everywhere yet when cats do it, it's all hands on deck to eliminate the pest.
Also what “salt water mist?” The Castro is inland, and it’s not like there are huge waves blasting clouds of mist into the air.
Yes, in the Sunset and other Western beach-adjacent areas, I could see salt aerosols being more of an issue. Dog pee is as low as 6 pH, full of salts, and I would assume on this object in the Castro (literally the innermost SF penninsula) dwarfs the volume contributed by salt aerosols.
Right --- plenty of fog, but not a lot of salty spray.
You're just mad because they won't let you piss on things anymore.
Dog piss is a salty slightly acid stream of water. I.e. it is more direct damage than general mist.