Saturday, August 13, 2011

Man sacked for therapeutically washing self with his urine

An Austrian man was fired from the renowned Viennese Belvedere museum, a castle in Vienna with a major art collection, for therapeutically using his urine.

During urine therapy, one's own urine is applied to the skin or injected. 57-year-old Alfred Zoppelt consideres urine as the body's own remedy against acne, cancer, wrinkles, allergies and much more. However, his belief has cost him his job. A Belvedere spokesperson confirmed that the man was fired.


Photo from here.

He recieved his dismissal notice a few months ago saying: "You regularly wash your face and hands with urine and thus contaminate your workspace and equipment and put the health of your co workers at risk."

Zoppelt said: "I worked there for 23 years and there were never any problems. I was promoted to being a warden - in charge of the porters there. It was there that I showed a colleague a DVD about the therapy." After that he said he was fired.

5 comments:

Insolitus said...

Doesn't that make him stink? I mean, old, stale piss is a potent and disgusting smell indeed.

Also, confidential to the crackpot: urine is not a magic healing tincture your body secretes, but waste product your body tries to get rid of.

arbroath said...

You'd thing he would be emitting some unpleasant odour.

Patrick said...

It is a waste product, indeed. But it is sterile, and certainly cannot be condemned for any possible unsanitary measures. Had it been feces, that would be a different story.

Insolitus said...

Oh, come on Patrick! I bet if I came over there and peed a little on you, "Big deal, it's sterile" wouldn't be your reaction, either.

Barbwire said...

We have an on-going dispute about very young children in the jacuzzi, as the water then smells like urine. The grandmother of one of the offenders keeps telling us that urine is sterile. I don't want to bathe in ANYONE'S urine, no matter how sterile it is.