Posted on 07/08/2007 10:26:36 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Robo-toilets proposed to stop 'gay' cruising
Mayor: 'Homosexuals ... engaging in sex, anonymous sex, illegal sex'
Posted: July 7, 2007
6:55 p.m. Eastern
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle says his city has a problem with "homosexual activity" in public restrooms and he has a plan to stop it – robotic toilets that allow occupants to stay inside for only a short time before the door automatically opens.
"We're trying to provide a family environment where people can take their children who need to use the bathroom without having to worry about a couple of men in there engaged in a sex act," Naugle told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
The $250,000 self-cleaning robo-johns have been installed in San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta and New York. The modular units play music and can be accessed for a fee or for free, depending on each city's policies.
Fort Lauderdale police officials said male sex in public restrooms is no longer a problem, but Naugle insists the practice persists and has used recent public meetings and e-mails to constituents to raise the issue.
Public restrooms are pickup places for "homosexuals. ... They're engaging in sex, anonymous sex, illegal sex," he said.
Naugle said the proposed location for the city's first experimental unit is "the rainbow parking lot" at a local beach considered by some to be the area's "gay beach."
"The homosexual newspaper said it's the 'gay parking lot.' That's not me saying that," Naugle told the Sun-Sentinel, "that's what they said. I don't use the word 'gay.' I use the word 'homosexual.' Most of them aren't gay. They're unhappy."
Dean Trantalis, an openly homosexual former member of the City Commission who served with Naugle for three years, welcomes the restrooms at the beach but said the decision should not be made based on whether they will be used for sexual activity.
"I'm not an expert on public toilet sex," said Trantalis, "but there are those who would say one minute would be enough. Or 30 seconds."
If approved by the City Commission, the timed toilets will be paid for with property-tax funds.
It won’t work since homosexuals seem to want people to see them anyway. Seems that robo crappers would just help them out.
Well, if that’s their sales pitch, I predict that they will soon be in bankruptcy. Our government is not going to buy toilets that are designed to prevent gay sex.
It's about time! Now I too can relax and use the can in peace.
Years ago I worked as a student at a big University. A certain bathroom had gotten a reputation as ‘the’ bathroom for this kind of thing. The campus cops had proposed to take the doors off the stalls in hopes of stopping this, but the gays continued to do their thing even with no stall doors. They wound up putting the doors back on. So, sadly, this will not work.
robotic toilets that allow occupants to stay inside for only a short time before the door automatically opens.
If somebody is sitting there with constipation, they might exceed the time limit and have an embarrassing moment when the doors open.
In Seattle the druggies and both male & female prostitutes still manage to use them. I read the street urchins routinely try to destroy the very expensive units.
Have to change the attitude, not the device.
On another note, one of our children is afflicted with Crohn’s disease.
He often spends inordinate amounts of time in the restroom.
If the door pops open in process, I suspect he will own the city hall, and sell it for a profit.
Taxpayers getting screwed.
Take the stalls down entirely. Hardly ever been in an Army latrine that had them anyway.
Lol! They better install foot leverage bars so you can strain
better!
Good. That should be between your toilet and yourself.
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