(Eva_Deht)
No, you’re not hearing things in the men’s bathroom. Something is speaking to you, reminding you that if you’re sauced in the state of Michigan, you should definitely call a cab or a friend instead of taking to the road. Some counties in the state are trying use talking urinal-deodorizer cakes to keep drunk drivers off the road.
The state has distributed talking cakes to the members of Michigan Licensed Beverage Association in four counties. A recorded message plays when men step up to the urinal, issuing the friendly reminder to get home safetly.
It’s all part of a statewide Fourth of July education and enforcement effort, that will kick off at a Detroit pub on Monday. A federally funded drunken driving crackdown will be running through July 8 in the state, which includes stepping up patrols in 26 counties.
And while this isn’t the first time talking urinal cakes have been used in the country for similar reasons, according to the Associated Press, it’s sure as heck the first time we’ve heard of such a thing. Drive safely, everyone, lest those cake orations be in vain.
Michigan using talking urinal cakes in DUI fight [Newsday]
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I can foresee some problems with this. All we need is some drunk to freak out mid-stream that the urinal is talking to him….
I don’t know ’bout you, but if I hear a cakes talking to me, I’d be freaked.
“Say, Bill. Would you rub some of this powder on my lips?”
*a cake (to appease the grammar Nazis)
A cake are trying use, or sunting along those lines – durp
This could be the new DUI test. If you’re sober enough to consistently hit the urinal cake then you’re sober enough to drive. Right?
To listen to this message in English, please aim left.
Para escuchar este mensaje en español, por favor, tienen por objeto la derecha
Well-deserved +1
por favor apunte a la derecha*
aim is apuntar in spanish
After a DUI I thought about how the local government and business want to cash in not prevent.
As a server I had to be licensed to serve alcohol and part of this was knowing the limits. In reality this was never upheld by the establishment or by the government.
By law, it MUST be upheld by the establishment in Michigan. If a server or waiter deems somebody too drunk to be served, they can not be served. An establishment would be in violation if they went ahead and served somebody. The lawsuit potential on that is HUGE.
What a relief! All that time I thought it was because of that cheap whiskey.
For a minute I thought that was a picture of Gary Busey smiling.
Just what I need, more noise in the bathroom when I’m sitting in the toilet stall trying to concentrate.
It is only for men. That is discrimination! I think the state should be forced to go through the expense of designing a system that woman can use, or take these out.
Also that handicapped can’t use the urinals, so it will be an american disabilities act violation.
The disabled washroom in a previous building I worked in had grab handles to the left and right of the urinals. There was also a disabled stall for wheelchairs. Which wouldn’t be so odd, except this was on the second floor of a freshly renovated building with no elevator.
I’ve never quite understood why the elevators in a car parking deck have braille.
Blind people can use urinals, just make sure you leave the urinal before they get there.
It’s fine here in Aus, on our Cop show I have men booked for DUI sitting next to their sober wife who can drive but “they thought they’d be alright to drive” lol
So it seems at least some of the people are hitting their target!
Cake: “Pleae drive carfeully and don’t drive drunk.”
Patron: “Piss on that!”
Well… that’s not the worst advice I’ve gotten from a urinal cake…
*hic* immm nOTT drunnnnk! i kannn driiiiii .. i *puke*
… and that was what will happen in real life.
Doesn’t everyone hear the urinals talking? I call it Son of Sanitizer.
And here I thought the cakes had alcohol sensors, so they were saying something *meaningful*: “Dude, you’re pissing 0.08, time to take a cab!”
me too
I know the last time the toilet started talking to me I called for a ride, Later I was told it was the guy sitting down and not the toilet. Just kidding lol
99 percent of us don’t drive drunk, yet will be forced to listen to this as we relieve ourselves because of the 1 percent who do. At least we can take pleasure in urinating on the source of the redundant moral lesson.
Elevators in parking garages, like the keys on drive-up ATM’s, are marked in Braille for two reasons. First, bureaucrats are morons. Second, so that the elevator company and the ATM manufacturer can make a single design wherever they put their products. It isn’t only the latter that spawns the otherwise nonsensical practice of putting Braille where blind people are unlikely to go, it’s also the former. This is why there is a sign in Braille at the customer’s door at the repair shop which services my car. Houston motorists are not blind, they just drive like it, but ADA and OSHA enforcers can see and can fine.
Urinals themselves are absurd. Invented by men to allow them to compare dicks so
they know who to bully.
People get bullied for dick size? AND you see urinals as a place to compare dicks? Both of these observations you have made tell us more about you than about urinals.
Men’s public bathroom rule #1: Always stare straight ahead. Looking to the side to view other males is expressly prohibited.
Urinals are certainly not a dick measuring fest.
Rule #2: No chit-chat while holding one’s ____. Stare straight ahead.
This is hilarious. Reminds of that video game they have in Japan that involves your peeing into the urinal to play….heres a link to it
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/9024979/Sega-launches-urinal-game-consoles-in-Japan.html
Once you break the seal, I can see that getting REALLY annoying.