Down the toilet

While New York City gets ready to install a public toilet in Riverdale, the City of Seattle is selling all five public pay toilets it purchased in 2004.
Citing problems with prostitution and drug use occurring inside the public potties, the city flushed the $5 million pay-toilet program and is now selling all five on eBay through a distributor.
“I’m not going to lie: I used to smoke crack in there,” homeless Seattle woman Veronyka Cordner told The New York Times about the public toilet that stood behind the Pike Place Market. “But I won’t even go inside that thing now. It’s disgusting.”
You can now buy the very same Hering-Bau WCmatic Ms. Cordner claims to have visited when it came time to smoke rocks.
There are no bidders so far. The minimum bid is $89,000.
In light of this news, Community Board 8 traffic and transportation committee chairman Tony Cassino wants the city Department of Transportation to visit Riverdale and explain its plans for safety at the sanitation station.
“The advantage we have here is that it’s near a police station,” he said.