Cellphones answer the call of nature

EStreetJoe · Nov 29, 2007

http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/general/2007/11/29/London_s.Loos/?cvqh=itn_toilets

Cell Phone Service Will Find Toilets
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, AP
4 hours ago

LONDON —

A new service promises Londoners they'll never have to spend much time looking for the loo. Westminster City Council, which covers London's bustling Oxford Street, the West End, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, on Thursday launched "SatLav" _ a toilet-finding service for cell phone users.

Tourists, theatergoers, shoppers and pub patrons in London's West End can now text the word "toilet" - and receive a text back with the address of the nearest public facility.

The system, which covers 40 public toilets, pinpoints the caller's position by measuring the strength of the phone signal. The texts cost about 50 cents, and most of Westminster's toilets are free.

The council said it hopes the service will stop people from urinating in alleyways, saying some 10,000 gallons of urine ends up in Westminster streets each year.

Companies such as Vindigo Inc. in the U.S. offers similar cell phone searches but SatLav is being touted as the first text-based toilet-finder in Britain.

"It's the first fully managed service that we're aware of," British Toilet Association director Richard Chisnell said, praising the council.

"Thank heavens for Westminster's public toilets," he said.

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Westminster City Council: http://www.westminster.gov.uk/
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Steak Snabler · Nov 29, 2007

SatLav is being touted as the first text-based toilet-finder in Britain.

Now there's a slogan for your business card.

ArnoldBabar · Nov 29, 2007

The council said it hopes the service will stop people from urinating in alleyways, saying some 10,000 gallons of urine ends up in Westminster streets each year.
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I think we've found the worst city job ever: patrolling the alleys with gallon jugs, trying to capture all the flowing urine so the council can get an accurate count.

Ace · Nov 29, 2007

ArnoldBabar said:

The council said it hopes the service will stop people from urinating in alleyways, saying some 10,000 gallons of urine ends up in Westminster streets each year.
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I think we've found the worst city job ever: patrolling the alleys with gallon jugs, trying to capture all the flowing urine so the council can get an accurate count.
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Worst job ever? Obviously, you've never worked the agate desk.

ArnoldBabar · Nov 29, 2007

Ace said:

ArnoldBabar said:

The council said it hopes the service will stop people from urinating in alleyways, saying some 10,000 gallons of urine ends up in Westminster streets each year.
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I think we've found the worst city job ever: patrolling the alleys with gallon jugs, trying to capture all the flowing urine so the council can get an accurate count.
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Worst job ever? Obviously, you've never worked the agate desk.
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I said worst city job. Obviously agate is worse than catching bum piss.

Steak Snabler · Nov 29, 2007

ArnoldBabar said:

Ace said:

ArnoldBabar said:

The council said it hopes the service will stop people from urinating in alleyways, saying some 10,000 gallons of urine ends up in Westminster streets each year.
Click to expand...

I think we've found the worst city job ever: patrolling the alleys with gallon jugs, trying to capture all the flowing urine so the council can get an accurate count.
Click to expand...

Worst job ever? Obviously, you've never worked the agate desk.
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I said worst city job. Obviously agate is worse than catching bum piss.
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Sire, you look like the piss boy!

And you look like a bucket of shit!

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