Strange bottles full of orange liquid

[KidKruger]

If you live in a camper your urine will be darker cos you're often not well hydrated because you don't have running water to drink and may not always have bottles of water to drink.

As it ages it soon goes dark too.

[Lynne]

No buses go by here, nor coaches nor taxis so that's out, I'm afraid. And, no matter what, you can't get away from the fact that no matter why anyone should want/need to pee into a botle, it can be disposed of down a drain even if you haven't a loo.

No, this is weird

Lynne

[David A]

Bloonoo, I think you may be on the right track.

I was in the gym this morning and saw something remarkably similar. Orange liquid, non-matching bottle.

That was a home-made isotonic drink the 'real' weights guys use.

Maybe someone's made up a bit too much and chucked it on the way home.

I can't imagine you'd want to drink more of a mixture of squash, maltodextrose and salt than you had to.

I tried to sneak a photo but didn't want risk any 'roid rage'.

[tarafitness]

There are plenty of minicab drivers who park nearby though and wait for call-outs on the street. You can usually tell where they've been as there's a collection of take-away rubbish scattered round the pavement/gutter. If they're not based in an office then it's possible that they have no access to a toilet and have to make do with a bottle..? Speculation of course.

The thing that disturbs me the most is that somebody is *deliberately* leaving the bottles out in plain view, they *want* them to be seen or they'd dump them in a corner or better still pour the contents down the drain and recycle the bottle.

It's just plain weird, gross and a bit creepy too!

[tarafitness]

David, I don't think that is the case unfortunately. The bottles were there before Christmas, then removed. They've been replaced with more and there was an extra one last night :-(

If someone made up too much drink they'd just pour it away surely?

[KidKruger]

If you live in a camper your urine will be darker cos you're often not well hydrated because you don't have running water to drink and may not always have bottles of water to drink.

As it ages it soon goes dark too.

[Fidgetsmum]

Contact Environmental Health immediately and report suspicious liquids being dumped. They should be all over it asap. Doesn't matter if it ends up being harmless, but it should be reported and checked. If it was something like lucozade or something equally harmless, why is the person not just pouring it down the drain and recycling the bottles?

Environmental Health are the guys for the job I think.

[KidKruger]

I wonder if it could be residual fluid from some activity ie. acid.

Some acids will burn a hole in your hand but not in a plastic bottle.

[binary_star]

Probably urine. Cabbies, bus drivers, lorry drivers. They're all at it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-12937483

No point getting the dulux colour chart out, but the toilet water will dilute the colour quite a bit at home.

[PipD]

Nice Pic Tara, reminds me of The Usual Suspects for some reason!

Liquid also looks exaclty like my morning Berocca type drink. Which isn't a confession btw.:))

Now I know one shouldn?t be advocating the use of guns round here, or even making light of them...but I can?t help seeing those bottles lined up and wishing I had an air rifle (which would also let you smell the contents without getting too close!)

[intexasatthe moment]

Can't find link to Enviromental Health Southwark - can someone else ?

[Siduhe]

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/100006/environment

Environmental protection

Tel: 020 7525 2000

[email protected]

Hit send too soon - meant to say that the Environment team cover Pollution and Street Cleaning, so would start with them.

[krishner]

What a fantastic thread! Whoever does the advertising for Tango is missing a trick here. This things going viral....keep it up ffolkes!

[Dulwich Gas]

I came across this thread yesterday by mistake but now im intrigued.

[Lynne]

What about if the wierdo wants publicity? Perhaps he/she wants pictures of their urine spread across the world and now we're feeding this strangeness?

Lynne

[Saila]

Is there a squat near by? Or a house with no running water? That would make sense. I've been into squats that had rooms which used to be bathrooms but were completely empty... No loo. No running water... That's my guess

[bloonoo]

if that's the case then I hate to think where the number 2s are going...

[Worker]

Couple more bottles neatly lined up on the corner of Spurling and Crawthew this morning.

[EmilyE]

It's clearly an art installation. A comment on the state of our society. An examination of the different waste products amongst us and how we use and view them. The ephemeral and the less so, the undervalued and the essentially not valued.

No?

[DulwichFox]

Worker Wrote:

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> Couple more bottles neatly lined up on the corner

> of Spurling and Crawthew this morning.

Yes. They were there last night. 21.00 when I saw them.

Did look as if they had been carefully placed.

Cannot be Pee. ? One person could not possibly Pee that much.

Fox.

[Lynne]

In answer to Saila, no, no emptyhouses/squats. Typical nice Ed residential. Untypical in that we have a urine collecting maniac locally who gets their kicks from leaving bottles of it everywhere

Lynne

[peckhamboy]

bloonoo Wrote:

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> if that's the case then I hate to think where the

> number 2s are going...

Well, there are a lot of threads about how much dog mess is on our streets, but so far everyone admitting to be a dog owner swears blind that they pick up after their dog. Perhaps the mess has been wrongly identified, and the urine depositor of Crawthew Grove has also been distributing other waste products around the area?

[herrd]

I like the first photo... reminds me of the Usual Suspects. Apt, really... who is ED's urine-soaked Kaiser Soza? Anybody up for a stake-out? I demand long-lens photo action of the perpetrator in the act (ideally not the actual, you know, act, but you get my point...) It's name and shame time!

[mikeb]

Has someone confirmed it is actually urine? Can't be too hard to do that - if I passed it daily I wouldn't be able to stop myself, so to speak ...

[herrd]

Mikeb: are you offering to take a sniff, or - the ultimate "taking one for the team" gesture - a swig? :)-D