Seattle Flushes $5M High-Tech Toilets

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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Re:Just Remember...

[illumin8]

This is from the article:

Though officials acknowledge more public restrooms are desperately needed, the city has no immediate plans to replace the toilets.

I really don't understand why city officials feel like they need to take my tax money to pay for public toilets. If people want the convenience and luxury of a toilet, they can buy their own damn toilet, or they can go shit in the woods like a bear. Seattle is a pretty messed up place to live if the city thinks they need to spend $5 million so a few homeless people have a place to pee or use drugs.

Seriously, when did we decide as a society that we had to provide free public toilets to everyone? This is just getting ridiculous.

Re:Just Remember...

[Archangel Michael]

You arrest the homeless person caught in the act of urinating / defecating in public. If a NON - HOMELESS person did it, we'd be hauled off to the clink.

The Homeless are untouchable and holy to the Liberal Elite. "they can't help it" is a tired old excuse, and part of a sick co-dependency that should be treated by mental health professionals.