Dude, this really isn't funny. It's really sick. But it made me laugh
(feeling guilty as well):
There is a sound that haunts the people who live on the outskirts of
Nairobi, Kenya.
It is not the roar of Numa the lion, nor is it the hiss of Histah the
snake.
Instead, it is a man-made sound:
Thwip-thwip-thwip-thwip-THWUNK!
Thwip-thwip-thwip-thwip-THWUNK!
It is the sound of bags of shit flying through the air and hitting the
corrugated metal roofs of their sheds.
That's right, bags of shit, or as they've become known in Kenya,
"flying
toilets." The problem is that in an area populated by roughly 2,000
people,
there are only 5 conventional, sit-down, closed-door toilets, and
they're
pay toilets at that.
So, rather than wait in a line of what's often a hundred people, with
or
without newspapers in their hands, most simply go outside, shit on a
piece
of polythene paper, wrap it up, and chuck it as far as they can. Given
the
density of the sheds the people live in, the odds of one hitting your
roof
or landing right outside your door are pretty high.
The chance that one of these 3rd-world FedEx packages will land on your
head
probably isn't quite as high, but that doesn't mean residents don't
walk
around with at least one cautious eye scanning the sky for shit
projectiles.
Maybe this is one of the reasons why Kenya produces so many amazingly
fast
runners.
Horrible poverty, poor sanitation, and flying bags of shit? Now that's
a
problem.
― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 28 December 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)
three years pass...