Nicole Richie warms to lamppost dog urinals

Nicole Richie is backing an invention which may protect America's lampposts from premature destruction by corrosive mutt piss - a "dog urinal" which channels the deadly liquid safely into the gutter. According to highly dubious reports in the US press, Richie is well impressed with Swedish inventor Lennart Jarlerbro's cunning …

[Mr Brush]

They must be...

...taking the piss.

Boom boom!

[Sampler]

Maybes she's looking to commision

A handbag version - afterall isn't that the cool place for the vacous ninnies to keep their pooch these days?

[Anonymous Coward]

And also

A useful place for a lady to use when caught short after an evening getting pished. No quickly diving to the nearest bushes for them!

Coat/door

[Dan]

@Mr Brush

i bet you're pretty chuffed with that, eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

I see...

I imagine it's not just dogs of the canine variety that would benefit from this invention...

[Justin Case]

But Seriously

Where is the Paris Hilton angle?

[John Macintyre]

@ Justin Case

Nicole Richie <-> Simple Life <-> Paris Hilton <-> Simpletons with dog bags

and lets not link the blonde hotel lady with dogs now, she's a real human (some might say)

[Anonymous Coward]

@ Mr Brush

Barking....

[Anonymous Coward]

Ammonia

They use ammonia to help keep latex adhesive liquid, yeah? And what does stale urine decay into? Oh yes! Ammonia. So they're going to last a good while these little rubber cups you're going to have at just the right height to catch chihuaha (cannot be *bothered* to look up the spelling for the stupid, pointles little rats) *or* Great Dane pee when they cock a leg?

A Teflon sheath for the bottom three feet, perhaps but a "cup" made of rubber? The inventor would be off his swede if he lived in any other country.

[A J Stiles]

Easier solution

If the authorities actually stumped up a bit of ratepayers' money and bought a can or two of paint once a year, they could protect their lamp posts for much longer. There's no shortage of young offenders doing Community Service.

@AC, 3rd post: Ladies are fine just going in the street anyway. Haven't you ever heard of squatters' rights?

[mahoney]

Are we still living in the freakin dark-ages??

Lampposts?

It's 2007 for goodness sake. We should all have night-vision-infrared ocular implants by now. (not to mention robot butlers, hover-boots and personal rocket cars)

[Eileen Bach]

(Sp)arking up the wrong tree

My cuncils cleverer than wot this wun woz cos they plantid trees on ther vergis wich the dogs prefur to snif.

[Andy S]

why not make money from it

Just make a ridiculously high, on the spot, fine for anyone caught allowing their dog to pee against a lamp post. I assume the US has a similar policy for a dog crapping on the pavement without the owner cleaning it up.

problem solved!

[Anonymous Coward]

Will this...

...help the Wii shortage?