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There are some odd people reading this site.

rukkacrazy wrote:Anyone else like to lay a raincoat on dirty ground and stomp on it with their dirty boots? or see someone else stomp on the raincoat?

Or hang the raincoat outside on a pole when its really bad weather and see the raincoat being getting snowed on, rained on, sun light on etc.

Or see someone draging and throwing the raincoat around outside until its really dirty ?

I just like seeing a raincoat being all helpless and used in a little mean way . just ciurious if anyone else can relate to that.

Not me personally, but I am aware that some get 'kicks' out of burning or ripping rainwear, which is something I would never dream of doing! It takes all sorts, I suppose. I like to look after my vinyl rainwear collection so that it serves me well for many years. What with the health and environmental hysteria and paranoia, PVC raincoats made from highly plasticised, soft, pliable and rubbery PVC are becoming increasingly difficult to come by, and I am not keen on the idea of buying used vintage rainwear from EbAY, etc. If it wasn't for the few dedicated PVC rainwear suppliers like PUL, I don't know what I would do to get my PVC fix.

I by myself enjoy wearing all sorts of plastic or plastic-coated garments a lot. Not only rainwear. And I also like seeing others wearing it. But once in a while an item has to go and I feel the urge to abuse it.
I don't stomp on them with dirty boots but I like to do other cruel things to them - all of them ending with the destruction of the garment. It is a two-sided sword although. On the one hand I feel pity for these things but on the other hand it would be more cruel if they got burned in an incinerator or if they were rotting along in a landfill.
Some examples are: Shredding, ripping by hand while wearing , blowing up with fireworks, use as protective package for the destruction of brittle things with a hammer or boiling in hot water. Just as a sidenote: It is quite interesting that the "Friesennerz" Jackets and trousers from the seventies which were made from PVC coated cotton would survive geting boiled in steaming hot water quite many times.

While I don't personally like to make these things dirty there is one relaitive of mine who is destroying rainpants by making them dirty. To be more exact: He uses rainpants that have been altered as diaper covers. We cut their legs off and then the remaining "shorts" get elastic seams. On an average day that person wets two of them and they can be messed and washed around 60 times before they get brittle, ugly and start to leak. So I guess we have a consumption of about 8 to 12 nice new rainpants per year. It was my idea actually to try this and I thought it was quite a good idea at first. But when I saw the first pair ready to be pulled up adn wetted for the first time I felt very sorry for it. But because it was immediately clear that these are much more comfortable to wear than the conventional plastic ones there was no way back.
The decommissioned pants are usually run through the shredder because we once caught someone stealing a "retired" pair from the rubbish bin. I don't dare to think what he might have done with it.

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