“All those people yelling and celebrating the ball drop … They’re wearing soaked diapers! That cute girl … Peed herself! Handsome guy … Peed in a crowd! Everyone you see on TV who have been there since before noon … need a change of diapers.” That personal testimony comes from Rob Daugherty on Wander Wisdom, who describes holding his pee for 10 hours straight on New Year’s Eve in Times Square. To help with the venture he “drank almost zero liquids all morning and did not have breakfast.” He also ate a lot of salt at lunch “in order to retain water,” a move which — sorry, Rob — actually increases urine production, as the BBC reports.

Daugherty’s article and its testimonial are just one example of what the New York Post describes as the “urine-soaked hell” of New Year’s Eve in Times Square. While we can’t say whether or not the streets of Manhattan from 42nd to 47th and Broadway to 7th are literally flowing with urine, we can assume that quite a few jeans are. After all, as the Law Offices of James Shalley cite, it’s illegal in New York City to “throw or put any blood, swill, brine, offensive animal matter, noxious liquid, dead animals, offal, putrid or stinking vegetable or animal matter or other filthy matter of any kind … into any street,” and carries a fine of $145.01, specifically. Not that that couldn’t happen right next to you on New Year’s Eve, anyway.