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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 nsayer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The effects of the drug are addictive

    I don't think that word means what you think it does. Addictive implies that if you stop doing it, you experience unpleasant side effects. It does not mean simply that doing it is pleasurable.