October 26, 2016

The World’s Tallest Church Is Eroding Because People Keep Peeing On It

Officials in the city of Ulm, Germany are begging men to stop relieving themselves on the famous Ulm Minster, which has the world’s tallest church tower, because its stone base is being eroded by the salts and acids found in urine. The city is desperate to stop men from peeing on the historic structure and even doubled fines for those caught, but it made little difference. There are several public events held in the square near the church throughout the year, and when there is a line to the portable restrooms, some guys can’t hold it and think the church’s celebrated Gothic architecture is a suitable alternative. Their drunken shamelessness is literally sinking the church, which is a kind of blasphemy that not even Goethe could write. Having the world’s tallest church is a major tourist attraction for Ulm, why would anyone want to piss that away?

Yes, I want to sound marginally more intelligent: