Finns get text to pee service!

[SUBMAN1]

Dowly will like this. Crazy that you now have to pay to use the facilities. My question is - What happens if said user doesn't have a cell phone? I don't own one personally, and haven't owned one in about 5 years, so I guess I'll be using handy bush if I ever visit Finland.

-S

Text-to-pee service launched
By James Sherwood [More by this author]
5th February 2008 15:56 GMT

Finland’s residents now face being caught short during car trips if their phones are out of credit, because the country’s road management agency has introduced an SMS entry system for public toilets.


Called the SMS Lock System, users must text “OPEN” to a number shown on the door of various toilets and shower rooms along Highway One in Paimio and Salo, near Turku, where the texting service began operating earlier this month.



Hopefully without a long delay, the bursting user’s text is directed to a modem that helps to deactivate the door’s lock. Use of the service costs the same as a standard text message in the region.


The service, which is managed by the country's Road Administration (RA) and is thought to be the first of its kind, was introduced because of ongoing vandalism to public facilities. However, the RA believes that you’re less likely to bash a bog or smash-up a shower if they have your time of entry and mobile phone number recorded.


This isn’t the first time texting has been used for pee-related problems. Last year, London’s Westminster Council launched its Sat Lav scheme, which allows mobile-equipped Londoners to locate the nearest public toilets by texting the word ‘toilet’ to 80097.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02..._text_service/

[Dowly]

Nonsense. I use the bushes.

If I had to pay to take a leak I'd do it on the side of the road and keep on going...that's the weirdest thing I've heard of all day

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Originally Posted by -SWCowboy.

If I had to pay to take a leak I'd do it on the side of the road and keep on going...that's the weirdest thing I've heard of all day

Or right outside the toilets

[STEED]

Originally Posted by -SWCowboy.

If I had to pay to take a leak I'd do it on the side of the road and keep on going...

You want to see my town on a Friday night. Try avoiding stepping in the yellow lakes and in the morning the smell is so strong you need a gas mask, hey you seen Saturday night around here? All I can say is this, don't forget your frogman suite.

[Happy Times]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Nonsense. I use the bushes.

Like most Finns, Dowly is also a "Pissis". :p



Dont ask, dont know how to translate that..

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Happy Times

Like most Finns, Dowly is also a "Pissis". :p



Dont ask, dont know how to translate that..

ROFL! :rotfl:

I'm just a ferret in distress, that's all. Besides, our "sheriff" is up-tight bstard who gives you a ticket if you are peeing in public, so it's nice to circle around the tree with your dick out while remembering the "Monty Python's: How not to be seen" vid while a police car is driving just few meters from you. :rotfl:

What I am supposed to do when I get out of bar and it's closed, I get the urgent need to take a pee and there's no toilets nearby!