Rio unleashes "pee patrols" to clean up Carnival

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Rio unleashes "pee patrols" to clean up Carnival

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro has in recent years evicted drug dealers from hillside slums, carved fast-moving bus lanes into sclerotic streets, and cracked down on unauthorized food vendors along the city's 58 miles of beaches. Now, as they gear up for the 2013 Carnival, officials are taking aim at another old Rio scourge: public urinating. Urine flows as freely during Rio's famous annual festivities as beer and the cane liquor known as cachaça. ...

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