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Suspects in Suzuka were presumably bad boys.

Back in February, a signal light (đèn tín hiệu giao thông) at the corner of an suburban intersection in the town of Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, fell over. Thankfully (may sao), no one was injured (không ai bị thương) when the six-meter (19.7-foot) tall iron pole toppled, but the circumstances were worrying given the relatively short time since it had been installed.

Naturally, infrastructure doesn’t last forever, but the city expects poles of this type to have a service lifespan of about 50 years before the need replacement. The pole, though, had only been planted in its spot on the corner in 1997, making it just 23 years old and not even to the projected halfway point of its durability.

Clearly something had gone unexpectedly wrong, but the damage didn’t appear to be the work of a purposeful vandal (phá hoại có chủ đích). During the on-site investigation (điều tra tại chỗ), though, police officers noticed a large number of local residents passing right by where the pole had been standing while walking their dogs. It turns out that side of the street overlaps with the courses many pooch owners regularly walk with their pets, and the police began to suspect their might be a connection.

Conveniently, there’s another signal light pole on the other side of the road, and so the Mie Prefectural Police Scientific Investigation Research Lab decided to perform some tests to check for the presence of urea, the nitrogenous compound that’s essentially the non-water part of urine. Sure enough, they found nearly eight times as many urea traces on the pole that had fallen than on the one across the street that got less paw traffic from dogs. Even more startling were the results from testing the ground around near the base of the poles, in which the dog-preferred spot had 42 times the amount of urea than its never-toppled counterpart.

Deduction: it was probably all the pooch piss (nước đái chó) that took down the pole.

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