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by barbs 2069 days ago
Also in Amsterdam - canals mostly have no railings along their canals to prevent people from falling in.

I heard a story that dead bodies of men kept getting found in the canals with alcohol in their blood and their flies undone. As you can probably guess, intoxicated men were attempting to urinate in the canals and ended up falling in and drowning. Rather than building railings, they built more public urinals.