If you've ever found yourself in London, unable to find a toilet and furiously hopping around to contain the yellow flood whose release feels imminent, I have good news: Westminster City Council, which covers London's bustling Oxford Street, the West End, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, on Thursday launched "SatLav" - a toilet-finding service for cell phone users. Tourists, theatergoers, shoppers and pub patrons in London's West End can now text the word "toilet" - and receive a text back with the address of the nearest public facility.
The system, which covers 40 public toilets, pinpoints the caller's position by measuring the strength of the phone signal. The texts cost about 50 cents, and most of Westminster's toilets are free. The council said it hopes the service will stop people from urinating in alleyways, saying some 10,000 gallons of urine ends up in Westminster streets each year. Companies such as Vindigo Inc. in the U.S. offers similar cell phone searches but SatLav is being touted as the first text-based toilet-finder in Britain. "It's the first fully managed service that we're aware of," British Toilet Association director Richard Chisnell said, praising the council. "Thank heavens for Westminster's public toilets."
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The system, which covers 40 public toilets, pinpoints the caller's position by measuring the strength of the phone signal. The texts cost about 50 cents, and most of Westminster's toilets are free. The council said it hopes the service will stop people from urinating in alleyways, saying some 10,000 gallons of urine ends up in Westminster streets each year. Companies such as Vindigo Inc. in the U.S. offers similar cell phone searches but SatLav is being touted as the first text-based toilet-finder in Britain. "It's the first fully managed service that we're aware of," British Toilet Association director Richard Chisnell said, praising the council. "Thank heavens for Westminster's public toilets."
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omg, thats a lot of ****
No ****ing.
Many wud think they would just let u but they're uptight in some cities, thanfully they had beach washrooms tho
that's crazy tho! 10,000 gallons, oh my, well u gotta feed the rats someohow, c'mon! LOL
50 whats?
10,000 gallons of urine is better than 10,000 gallons of poopy laying in the back alley.
No. Not everyone is Muslim / doesn't drink. Besides, do you realise how much money the country makes from alcohol? A ****LOAD.
"pinpoints the caller's position by measuring the strength of the phone signal". This is done using the moble masts...correct?
Therefore, no satelites are used. Therefore, the pun on "SatNav" breaks completely.
Therefore, they should have called it "CrapNav"...
On, for example, the BBC News website it would be in the nations currency and then in brackets it would be in pounds and pence.
e.g. "...the cost would be $50'000'000 dollars (roughly £25'000'000)..."
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