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The World's Most-High Tech Urinal
Mudzy writes "In an effort to handle its nighttime public urination problem, Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, is considering installing high-tech urinals that disappear below street level during the day. Then at night, an operator comes by with a remote and the Urilift hydraulically lifts to sidewalk level in about two minutes. Then the unit is ready to serve all the nighttime party animals who don't mind peeing in a very exposed public urinal. The $75,000 system has been installed across the Netherlands, and have spread to London and Belfast, but Victoria will be the first North American city to try them out."
They're taking the piss. Sorry.
Seriously, watch the video, it's hillarious ;)
the one in belfast is cool. it's just down the street from me and instead of using the one at my place i walk down there to do my stuff and meet girls who are there spectating (they're jealous because they can't stand up to do it).
then it would be perfect for a cron job. Why do you need to pay someone to click the friggin button?
If not cron, maybe X11 to the rescue?
I went to uni in Victoria. Call me nostalgic but, I'll really miss the urine soaked side walks downtown...It just won't be the same dammit!
...just like Urinus appears every night in the starry skies.
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Now just to wait for a geek to hack a remote control sequence, and film the urinals doing the Bellagio Fountains.
I feel for you, bro, I feel for you. I too suffer from a similar condition, prostatitis, and my condition requires that I jackoff 5-8 times a day to keep the seminal fluid pressure at a reasonable level. Public restrooms are a godsend for people with my condition. Of course, people look at me kind of funny when they walk in and see me over by the sinks with a picture of Kathleen Fent in one hand and me furiously jacking off my cock in the other hand, but hey it is a medical condition and there isnt much to be done, except for the public restrooms that are equiped with glory holes. TFA didnt mention whether these hi-tech urinals will have any provisions for glory holes. Hope so. Anyway, best wishes to you and yours with that uromycitisis.
The bums still pee in the public parking elevators. That's about as high tech as it gets here for public peeing.
.. girls don't pee. They expel all waste products as a pine-smelling vapour emitted through their pores.
No joke. Just don't use it at twilight or you get stuck in a urinal for 12 hours.