Russian School Tries Out Pay Toilets

Seattle PI ^ | 11/18/03

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MOSCOW -- Pay toilets are not unusual, but in school?

For a short time, students at a high school in the southern Russian city of Taganrog had to do more than raise their hands and ask for permission to use the bathroom - they had to fork over cash, NTV television reported Tuesday.

School officials instituted a plan to charge pupils for toilet trips in order to pay for repairs that were needed after students vandalized bathroom fixtures, NTV said. City education authorities quickly halted the practice, NTV reported, without saying how much they had to pay.

The network broadcast part of what it said was an amateur video taken in a school hallway, showing a boy asking a cleaning woman whether he could use the bathroom. Her reply: "Pay."

[buffyt]

All over Europe you pay to use the toilet. This isn't so surprising. They even have little old ladies collecting the money in men's rooms. But the good thing about it is clean restrooms!

[July 4th]

There's nothing like paying 50 euro cents so you can piss in an Italian hole in the floor.

[buffyt]

True! One toilet we used in formerly East Germany, in Eisenbach, had a stall for women, one for men, and one in the middle that I couldn't tell what the symbol represented. Most restrooms were clean and I didn't care how much I had to pay, so long as I could find a potty!

[buffyt]

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[buffyt]

Excellent, from your profile page...

You should thank God for making you an American; and instead of feeling guilty about it, help spread our ideas worldwide.
No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity.

[tracer]

No $#!t ??!!

[tracer]

They're calling this the Rubles for Rumbles Initiative.....