URINE TROUBLE

So far the party at this year’s World Cup festivities in Germany has come off without a hitch... except for the possibility that Berlin’s trees could slowly drown in piss. According to a report in the Guardian newspaper, the huge tree-lined street where up to 700,000 soccer fans gather during each match to eat, drink, and watch the games has only 280 portable toilets, leaving most male fans using the trees for their pitstops. According to one biologist ”the urea sinks into the ground as ammonia. In small quantities this is a good fertiliser, but too much acidity is bad for the soil and could damage or even kill the trees.”