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Seattle Flushes $5M High-Tech Toilets

Posted by kdawson on from the siruis-cybernetics-corp.-was-here dept.

theodp writes "Hopes were high back in 2004 as Seattle's posh public potties opened for business. But four years later, city officials have said good riddance to the five high-tech toilets, self-cleaning and cylindrical, that had cost Seattle $5 million. The city unloaded them on eBay for just $12,549. The commodes had become filthy hide-outs for drug use and prostitution."

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  1. Re:Just Remember... by Z00L00K · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The insight here was that they were self-cleaning so no need for a janitor.

    But maybe an option should have been that if somebody was there for more than 30 minutes then the self cleaning should have started.

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