Thursday, May 07, 2015

Bangladesh uses Arabic to stop public pissing...

Authorities in Bangladesh appear to be winning the battle to stop people from urinating in public by putting up signs in Arabic, which is regarded by Muslim Bengalis as a sacred language.

Although most Bengalis are not even able to read Arabic, the recent decision of the religious affairs ministry to put up signs telling people not to pee in public seem to be working.

A two-minute video clip has gone viral and is being shared on social media, including Facebook. It shows a group of people approaching a public wall to have a piss, but then as soon as they read the Arabic sign they make sure their flies stay zipped and make a pious gesture in respect to the Arabic language.

Arabic is sacred because it is the language the Koran is written in. Similar signs in the Bengali language were having little effect.

“I don’t understand why people urinate by the roadsides. Especially when every mosque provides public toilet facilities,” Matior Rahman, the country’s religious affairs minister, says in the video.

 A spokesmen for the religious affairs ministry said the campaign had been a success. Full story...

Related posts:
  1. India's massive toilet problem...
  2. India's anti-pissing tanker...
  3. Man in India shot dead for urinating in public...
  4. In India you get paid for pissing in a public toilet!!!
  5. Flush so we don't blush! Taiwanese city residents to be potty trained!!!

No comments:

Post a Comment