I have lived in Calgary, Canada for most of my life and have always found it to be a rather pleasant and progressive city.

With a population of just under 1 million, this mid-sized city can boast a relatively low unemployment rate, minimal crime activity and an overall acceptable cost of living.

I always have thought that it was a pretty good place to be and like everyone else around the world, I do have some pride and affection for my hometown.

However in watching the news the other evening, I may need to take a step back and re-evaluate my feelings towards this city as things are starting to get a little bit strange around here.

It would seem that according to my favourite local news channel, our city council is asking for a series of new bylaws be drafted for possible implementation by late this summer.

That in itself is not my issue as this is a rather common occurrence for Calgary or any other city to set such a mandate. My issue is that one of these bylaws being drafted is meant to ban the activity of public urination. Yep, you read that correctly - "No more peeing in the streets of Calgary".

Now I was a little taken aback by this since I had always assumed that urinating in public was not only really quite disgusting but also quite illegal. Apparently not.

In fact, this new local pastime has become such a persistent nuisance that our esteemed city council must draft up bylaws to curb this unacceptable pursuit.

I am not sure about you, but I am of the mindset that any city which has to draft up these kind of ludicrous laws and bylaws is not a city that I really want to visit, let alone actually live in.

I mean what kind of people do we have running around our town if we need to have these kind of laws in place. Just a bunch of wild unabashed damn public urinators by the sounds of it. Nice place, eh?

It would seem our streets are paved with gold all right, but sadly the source is that of the human variety instead of the mineral one.

So I would expect this to be a no-brainer law to pass; you urinate in public, you get fined or arrested and all is well once again in the world. Pass the damn law and move on, right. Well not so fast.

Believe it or not, apparently there is some resistance to this proposed bylaw.

Homeless rights advocates have come out demanding that the city should focus on getting people off the street rather than creating new laws that penalize the most marginalized members of society. They cautioned aldermen that in many jurisdictions, such laws have been viewed as harassing the less fortunate, without tackling the root of the problem.

Now I am sure these advocates are all good well-meaning individuals who only have the best of intentions at heart, however perhaps I have become just too jaded over the years and as a result I have to call  !@!@&^*@ .

In a large downtown such as ours, there are plenty of public restrooms and washrooms all over that are accessible 24 hours a day and 7 days a week which cannot refuse any person entrance to nor use of.

My guess is that the it is not just the homeless that are guilty of this activity.

For the filthy pigs that choose to urinate or defecate or do whatever else the Hell they want to do in public is not acceptable in the least, and the ignorant short-sighted advocates who condone this type of activity are actually encouraging it by their idiotic remarks. If the homeless or any other individuals expect to get any respect they must conduct themselves accordingly and not urinating in our city streets will undoubtedly be a great step in furthering their cause.

I mean if I am standing on a street corner and some guy walks by me and starts urinating in the street, the last thing I am going to ask him is his address or place of residency. I really don't care at that stage whether the swine is homeless or not. The paramedics can figure that one out after he gets a swift kick in the head, I have a zero tolerance policy on some things.

So to all of you damn public urinators "beware", get it all out of your system now before these new bylaws get passed in the summer.

Because after that, 'Urine Trouble'.

(HAHA!! Okay, I've been dying to use that last stupid phrase from the beginning - but it did make you laugh !!)