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San Francisco residents speculate a utility box collapsed due to dog urine
(www.nbcbayarea.com)
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Apparently people peeing on steel objects is an actual serious structural issue.
Here's a bridge in Sumatra that got hit:
https://www.loosewireblog.com/2004/11/urine_corrosion.html
I see another reference to civil engineering proceedings on a bridge in the Carribbean that faced a similar problem.
We need little zinc doggies to bolt to those spots for a sacrificial anode.
Or if humans are the cause, I guess little zinc dicks would be more appropriate.