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‘Can’t Pee’ Billboard Offends Some In Fair Lawn

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Controversial Billboard - Fair Lawn, NJ - Jan 20, 2012 (credit: Sean Adams / WCBS 880)

Controversial Billboard – Fair Lawn, NJ – Jan 20, 2012 (credit: Sean Adams / WCBS 880)

FAIR LAWN, NJ (CBSNewYork) - You might take offense, then again you might not. The slang term for urination that rhymes with “tee” is on a yellow billboard along Broadway in Fair Lawn.

WCBS 880′s Sean Adams On The Story


Some residents think it is inappropriate.

“It’s a little too raw,” said one on Friday.

The issue has been raised at the Broadway Special Improvement District.

The billboard simply asks, “Can’t Pee?” Then it directs people to icanturiniate.com, or the New Jersey Center for Prostate Cancer and Urology.

CBS Outdoor, which owns the billboard, has said it’s meant to get your attention and that the topic is actually quite serious.

The billboard will likely stay.

Are you offended? Sound off in the comments section below!

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  • Rosalina

    that’s friggin hilarious

  • Michael J Sanfilippo

    It’s just good advertising.

  • Iambic PentaMaster

    There once was a sign in Jersey,
    Large, yellow and easy to see,
    I looked ’round to peek,
    While taking a leak,
    The billboard was asking “Can’t Pee?”

  • Tommy C

    Advertising is done too catch your eye,get attention . Evidently this is good advertising , the agency has done its job.

  • royallen

    I tell my dog,”GOOD BOY” when he pees outside………..

  • You’re an idiot!

    Why does this asshole not have a / Report Comment? Is he part of the staff here?

  • You’re an idiot!

    Why does this asshole not have a / Report Comment? Is he part of the staff here?

  • David Brier

    If anyone truly finds this offensive they ought to crawl under a rock and die a slow death.

  • Mayor Koch’ s Tomb Inc.

    Can’t Urinate might be a better choice of words but it sounds
    like a distress signal ,”Can’t Pee” gets to the point of
    the message and does not leave me in a void.

  • Tom Davidson

    The four-letter words, the four-letter words
    That never say quite what you mean.
    We’d rather be known for out hypocrite ways
    Than as vulgar, impure and obscene.

    When nature is calling, plain speaking is out
    When the ladies, God bless ‘em, are milling about
    You may pee-wee, make water or empty the glass
    You can powder your nose, even Johnny can pass
    Shake the dew off the lily, see a man about a dog
    Or, when everyone’s soused, it’s condensing the fog
    But please to remember, if you would know bliss
    That only in Shakespeare do characters …..

  • C A WHITE

    HONESTLY, IS THIS JUST A JOKE? ARE THE RELIGIOUS NUTS PROMOTING THIS ONE TOO? HOW COULD AN INDIDUAL COME FROM THE MINDSET TO CARE? I’VE HEARD PEE PEE FROM MY FIRST MEMORIES. JUST WISH I DIDN’T HAVE THAT URGE. MY PARENTS STILL MAKE ME PEE IN A JAR.

    • Mike

      You are an ignorant idiot.

  • roneida

    With all the raw languaue on TV,music videos and recordings,and the movies, I can’t believe anyone would be such a wuss. Had they used the grown up, Pi**, I am sure a few puritanical language freaks would get all wet, bu this is ridiculous.

    People are starving to death out day and military men and women are being murdered. Who can care about this?

  • MJ

    WITH THE STATE OF THIS COUNTRY AND THE WORLS … IF this IS WHAT GETS PEOPLE UPSET AND OFFENDED THEY REALLY NEED TO REXAMINE THEIR PRIORITIES

  • Telling It Like It Is

    Don’t ya’ just love the “politically correct” army? When their doctors tell them they have prostate cancer — THEN they will think the message is appropriate. BY then it will be too late for a preventative dose of common sense……………

  • val

    People need to lighten up. It gets attention, which is what it’s meant to do. For people who have this problem, it may actually be beneficial to see the sign and go the website. In Italy, they have billboards with half naked (topless) women advertising food products and stuff and no one seems offended.

    • david goldstein

      val, im so proud that you made it to the featured comment…..you truly deserve this honor. just so you know i am very very proud you.

    • DCLaw-1

      Advertising what in Italy? Milk? Melons? Whipped cream? Hopefully not cheese

  • Remember when

    Do you remember when Cole Porter wrote”In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something schocking nowadays anything goes”. Well these are not th good-old-days and the latest “Let’s sue ‘em”, advert is about failed vaginal meshes. B/O, then a no go but today, O/K. And, ah well, so it goes.

    • I Remember When Too

      You almost got the words right, but not a big deal. I wonder, how many remember that B/O meant body odor and Arid was an early contender in that fight. Those were the days? Who knows.

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