Seattle four years ago, the municipal government spent 5 million U.S. dollars, in the city centre five high-tech devices fully automated public toilets (see chart), unexpectedly has become a drug and sex trade in new places, the authorities had to sell through the Internet to the toilet, eventually Only to sell 12,549 U.S. dollars, the deficit is clearly a Wallace. Zaobao Wang According to the report, the municipal authorities set up four years ago that the modernization of several stand-alone public toilet, the original is to enable tourists to the city to the homeless and Can return to have a convenient place, did not expect taken by the drug addicts and prostitutes, they have become too easy to prostitution or drug addiction of the new places.

United States 5 million U.S. dollars worth of high-tech public toilets

Local people and analysts say, five less than the cost-effectiveness of the toilet of the general public toilets, the city council in May this year decided to sell through eBay to the toilet. However, despite the auction of more than 9,000 page views on many occasions, only 148 bidders.