Since 2007 the city of Vancouver has been installing automatic toilets here and there around the city. These toilets are automatic in the way that the person steps inside, locks the door, and upon exit the toilet automatically flushes and cleans itself. The machines have a built in safety feature which will automatically unlock the door after 12 minutes, and if that fails there is a fail-safe lever. But for one man the experience varied a bit, Paul Taylor Spent 45 minutes inside the toilet. He was curious as to how the toilets functioned etc. and upon exiting the toilet (on the corner of Nelson and Granville) the door did not unlock, also claims that the fail-safe lever did not work. after a few minutes of trying to open the door he called the city and they sent a few people to open the door. Paul was released from the bathroom 45 minutes later (by a crowbar) and when talking to the city worked later found out, the same stall had been having problems previously. According to the city there have been a handful or people who have been locked in one of there over the past 4 years.I personally think that this is hilarious, now obviously i would not be laughing if it happened to me but come on its pretty funny. I have always been scared to be locked inside one of those and i guess according to the article it happens more then you would think so i don't care how bad i have to pee i will not be using one of those toilets. 45 minutes is a long time to spend inside one of those and i feel terrible for Paul. But if the city knew that the toilet was not working then they should have put an out of order sign on it or something, you knew that someone would be going into it sooner or later but at least let them know that its possible they will be inside for a while. I guess it was just bad luck on Paul's part but i guess now if you ever need it you have an ice breaker story.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/12/05/bc-vancouver-automatic-toilet.html
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