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High-Tech Toilets Flushed in Seattle
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by Jordan Yerman | August 17, 2008 at 12:46 pm
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When you bring in a new tool, there's no telling how your users are going to use it. Case in point: robotic toilets. Pretty straightforward, right?
Wrong.
Seattle's high-tech and high-priced public toilets were getting more face-time from drug users and prostitutes than butt-time from the target user, i.e. someone who really needs to take a dump.
As a result, the City of Seattle had to ditch the commodes to a private buyer at a painfully reduced price.
The city installed the modernistic stand-alone toilets four years ago, hoping they would provide tourists and the homeless a place to do their business while downtown. But the automated loos became better known for drug use and prostitution than for relief.
The article over at the USA Today mentions nothing about whether or not the fine city of Seattle refurbished these things before sending them along. From the sounds of things that might be OK, as they were used for anything but nature's call.
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Jordan Yerman
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at 18:27 on August 17th, 2008
jordan, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 18:29 on August 17th, 2008
Some things just can not be modernized too much.....Can you imagine what they will come up with to fix the whole hand/paper/wipe/discard situation ? scarry