I’m sure many of us remember this awful story. Family understandably want him remembered for more than the way he died.
by cothhum
I’m sure many of us remember this awful story. Family understandably want him remembered for more than the way he died.
by cothhum
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I always thought the concept was good, keep people from urinating on the streets. The execution however was piss poor.
What an absolutely horrible way to die. I hope his family gets some kind of closure.
Wtf is a telescopic urinal!? Is that a tube that moves towards your crotch?
Edit:
> Kevin Holding, 60, was crushed when a pop-up urinal he was working on in Soho dropped suddenly, on 27 January 2023.
> Pop-up public loos were introduced in central London in 2002 to discourage street urination. During the day, they are stored beneath the pavement and at night they rise hydraulically
As someone that lives in London I don’t think I’ve ever seen them.
I’ve seen lots and lots of big plastic 4 way urinals, they get dropped off at 6pm on Friday then picked in the mornings before being dropped off again on Saturday night.
They are then removed during the week
Urgh I remember this story, it was such an awful way to go. I think of this man every time I walk past there. A lot of sympathy with the family wanting Kevin remembered as more than the squashed-by-a-urinal guy. I’m glad the article has expanded a lot more about him, and some lovely photos so we can all put a face and a proper person to the story.
Hope they get equally proper answers.
Very good of the Beeb to humanise this story so it doesn’t become some tasteless throwaway joke for some crap panel show. Actual person, grieving family, failure to investigate and compensate. Awful accident.
It says somewhere else that the urinal dropped suddenly – I hope that means quickly, because being slowly crushed by that would be one of the worst possible ways to die. Hopefully he didn’t realise what was happening. The fact he was identified by his oyster card is a stuff of nightmares. Really shocking incident. My condolences.
Poor man, shocking that the family haven’t received the correct support nor any conclusion to an investigation as to what has happened. A man tragically lost his life, yet there seems to be zero empathy across the board.
why would he kill the poor mending telescopic urinal?
I work right by this and our work local can see the urinals, we were out for a company meal that day and walked passed all the commotion. The atmosphere in the air was awful. Some of the staff at the pub heard him screaming. The whole area was off for a long while after this happened. RIP.
Poor guy, RIP. Slightly irrelevant but I never even noticed that these things retract into the ground.
>The 60-year-old was identified by his Oyster card.
That’s just unimaginable. How horrifying forbeveryone. RIP