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no water inside... so no one is washing their hands? When your child has a poo explosion you cant do a damned thing to clean up properly. I wonder what the ga
by senectus1 8y ago
no water inside... so no one is washing their hands?
When your child has a poo explosion you cant do a damned thing to clean up properly.
I wonder what the gastro bug pickup rate is like in portland...
- frosted-flakes 8y agoThe very next sentence says there's a cold water spigot outside, which is a totally fine solution.
- senectus1 8y agoYeah, not really. I dunno how many poo-apocalypses you've had to deal with... but they get messy.
- mrep 8y agoI think it is mainly meant for homeless people so they don't just defecate in the street nonstop. I live in Seattle where there is a huge homeless problem and most businesses have codes on the bathrooms to only provide customers the option to use them.
- metildaa 8y agoHmm? I just spent the evening in Ballard (tons of homeless people sleeping on the street! Really surprising, Market Street wasn't like this 3 years ago), yet none of the businesses I visited had locked or door coded bathrooms. Same in Fremont, the coffee shops & restaraunts don't generally restrict access to the bathrooms in any noteworthy way, though some have a sign stating use should be limited to a few minutes. Georgetown, Central District & Madison Park were also pretty similar last I checked, you'd be hard pressed to find bathrooms with codes on them.
- c22 8y agoI've lived in Seattle my whole life and the only bathrooms with codes I can think of off the top of my head are at Uwajimaya and Starbucks. The Thai place across from the restrooms at Uwajimaya has the code prominently displayed on a cardboard sign and we all know the new policy at Starbucks. Oh, the sketchy McDonalds on 3rd makes an employee buzz you in, but the other McDonalds a few blocks away has open restrooms. Dunno where gp is hanging out. Also I have yet to see human excrement in the street, though I hear this is a big problem in SF.
- metildaa 8y agoOP is likely in a very small bubble (betting SLU or the south end of Downtown). 3rd ave McDonald's is a front for something IMO, perhaps the open air drug slinging that happens on that block? Its funny that 2 blocks away there is a much less sketchy McDonald's, seems like those franchises are way too close together. Hopefully we don't end up with plentiful open defecation like SoCal. I'd take setting up public restrooms (that might become BJ shacks at times) over a public health crisis.
- glangdale 8y agoIf your child has a poo explosion, you can look pitiful and generally you'll get ushered through to use a toilet in a store (source: experience). This would be pretty inconvenient, but to really deal with that situation requires wet wipes and a changing table. This is aimed at a different population who might otherwise just shit in the streets.
- ctrl-j 8y agoI mean, yeah - that sucks. But it's not what the thing is designed for. I watched a man stand slightly behind a construction sign on a downtown Seattle sidewalk and relieve himself in full view of a half dozen people yesterday. I believe that is the problem these toilets are aiming to solve. A parent with poopocalypse on their hands, probably can find a store that sells wetwipes and most likely has a change-table equipped restroom.
- Kalium 8y agoThat sounds terrible! I can only imagine how inconvenient and messy it is to deal with. With that said, there might be a minor distinction to be drawn between a solution that solves every use-case including yours and a solution that solves the most common use case of greatest policy concern. It is, of course, very possible and in fact very likely that I'm incredibly mistaken! In which case I welcome enlightenment.