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Text to Piss: SMS enabled public toilets in Copenhagen, Denmark

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By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 8:22 AM

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]

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Andre

    This photo was taken in downtown The Hague, some years ago.
    Location: Rabijn Maarssenplein.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    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.

  • Gargansarian

    ‘Urine has been proven a fantastic fertiliser’: half true. Anyone who has kept a bitch will have noticed bare patches in the lawn owing to their habit of pissing a full bladder in one spot (dogs do not give this problem owing to their habit of pissing a little bit here there and everywhere to mark their territory). To turn urine into usable fertiliser, keep it a fortnight to let the ammonia evaporate or dilute it immediately.