To think this is the worst idea in history?

[SinkGirl]

Anti-sex toilets that spray you with jets of water, sound an alarm and open the door if it:

• Detects “violent movements”
• The weight sensitive floor decides there’s more than one person in there
• You spend too long in the toilet

Disabled person with a mobility aid? Obese? Parent with child and buggy? Parkinson’s? Fall off the toilet? Spider runs across your bum?

You’re gonna get jetwashed and flash passers by. And you have to pay for the privilege.

These councillors were elected by people. Imagine that.

Yeah, I mean...

Homeless people in your borough with nowhere to sleep? So desperate they’re sleeping in dirty public toilets? Obvious solution: spend an obscene amount on dystopian toilets, problem solved!

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Surprised that people having sex in toilets is common enough or problematic enough for a solution to be needed

They probably have a cottaging issue... this isn’t how you fix it!

Yes to toilet attendants please. I just don't go out much any more because Disabled toilets are now used by absolutely everyone and too disgusting to use.

They shouldnt faff around wiht this misuse of publicke convenincies an enterprising outfit could invent a low cost "shag-a-pod"

Couple of quid in the slot, couple in the pod, there! sorted;)

I have never, in 42 years on this planet, encountered people having sex in a public toilet. Is this really that big of a problem?

I mean is the people having in the toilet really a problem, not the "solution" which is clearly problematic.

After s traumatic experience in London 20 odd years ago I won’t use the automatic opening ones on the street anymore. These are even more hideous

Due to illness & medication I weigh rather a lot, and fidget about on the loo & getting trousers back up/done up - I probably weigh and make as much ‘violent movement’ as two young skinny teens having sex - so there’s no way I’m getting anywhere near one of those!

Besides - how about they worry about finding suitable accommodation for the homeless who want it and stop worrying about where grown adults are having sex (frankly how anyone manages that in filthy public toilets is beyond me, but up to them really).

It's like Fuckwit Bingo - the only thing missing is a trans-detector.

No, seriously, this is what happens when you get people absolutely obsessed with the idea of stopping other people having sex, elected to positions of power. Or the main reason is to further dehumanize homeless people, but the fuckwits who came up with this are aware that if you spin something as Stopping Naughty People Having Sex, it's more likely to be accepted by the unthinking.

fuckwit bingo

Made me smile (a huge achievement today so thanks for that!)

I got trapped in one of the automated ones well over a decade ago (Icant remember the specifics of why) but I do remember I ended up getting soaked as the damn thing started self cleaning! And then needing to walk down the street soaking wet. I'd never go anywhere near them now not that I go anywhere such things exist anymore

I seem to remember someone getting an electric shock too, but that might have been on tv..

Just had a look at the council, it's one of those "independent alliance" types. Ours is the same, the ideas they come up with are cuckoo. The last one they tried was a "roving skip", they'd drop a skip in a location for a few hours for people to drop off larger waste items. But residents couldn't get their large items to the skip, and it ended up full of commercial waste including asbestos.

Cost of their little PR exercise? £30,000.

You spend too long in the toilet
I use a loo at work with a timed light and fan combo, I have to take my phone in so I can use the light from it to find the door when the light inevitably goes out. I am not even in it that long. Cant imagine how awful it would be if the door opened on me mid way.
It's a bit overkill to stop people (who does that) shagging.

Sounds terrifying

what if you have young dc & buggy? & they have these loos at the station In Pisa Italy - I tried to use one it didn't turn out well! I would like to lock the brilliant councillors in them with any of these scenarios mention by pp

I have seen people shagging in the loo unfortunatly.

and sorry to put this thought out there but...mother and child.or pedophile and child?

If a spider ran across my bum the jet washing would be the least of my worries!

surely 2 young, fit people shagging in a toilet will weigh less than a middle aged mother with a child in a buggy, another on a buggyboard, a rucksack with a laptop in it and a suitcase - I have been in this position many times - also with the violent movement when lurching to catch phone, stop child opening door, stop baby chucking something in the toilet etc. No way would I use a toilet like this.

Let me guess - invented by a man?

No. Invading Russia was the worst idea in history.

Justaboy "shag-a-pod" is genius. I think you are on to something there.

This is hillarious. For Christ sake don’t sneeze

Tourist worthy, ordinary people will flock to this city to try and see the fancy loos.
Take selfies outside the door.
T shirt sales, I peed in XYZ
Certainly marketing potential
But honestly there must be more to this than picked up by the news media, surely it’s been tested?? I do like the concept of it being shut down twice daily for 10 minutes and hosed down twice daily.

Shagging in the toilets was the reason they had to close a toilet block in New Brighton.

In Liverpool we tried letting sex workers use shipping containers, but it just made the area to unsafe.

It's a lazy way of trying to solve wider societal issues.

No. Invading Russia was the worst idea in history

Nah, that was a terrible idea, but it wasn't even the worst idea of WW2. That would be allowing Hitler to come to power, or the concentration camps.

There have been some awful ideas thru history. The slave trade? Pol Pot's year zero, Mao's cultural revolution, Stalin's 5 year plans. Sorry, but stupid toilets can't compete.

Ah yes, peedafil panic - the other justification for stupid, punitive, intrusive legislation and/or the closure of facilities.

This is not to deny that child abusers exist, but the vast majority of them are family members or people who have sought out some kind of position of power over children. they don't hang around public toilets looking for victims.