Text to Piss: SMS enabled public toilets in Copenhagen, Denmark
By Stefan Constantinescu on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 8:22 AM PST In Mobile Payments, Services
Denmark. Beautiful country, filled with beautiful people, and one of the leaders in green thinking. Like many countries in Europe, Denmark’s public toilets are not free. This explains why no one goes out for a nice walk on Sunday morning, those are not rain puddles if you catch my drift. The capital of Denmark, Copenhagen, is looking to make paying to pee a bit easier by enabling SMS payments on several toilets in Gråbrødre Torv, Hans Knudsens Plads and Borgergade. This luxury will not cost you anything extra. The fee is still 2 Danish Krone ($0.40), plus whatever it is you pay your operator to send an SMS. UNWIRE and Låsepartner City are the two companies responsible for deploying these new fangled pieces of technology, and they’re going to collect some data over the next 6 months to decide whether or not they should deploy more text to piss public toilets. I’m a little ashamed of you Denmark. Urine has been proven to be a fantastic fertilizer. Why not simply put trees next to taxi queues, liquor stores, and night clubs?
[Via: Textually and The Copenhagen Post]
This photo was taken in downtown The Hague, some years ago.
Location: Rabijn Maarssenplein.
This photo was also on page 1 of Google image search when I queried for “pissing”. There were some other, highly disturbing, photos which I decided not to post.