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2007-02-13 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Talking urinal cakes in NM latest weapon against DWI

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-13 06:51|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The state has ordered 500 talking urinal cakes that will deliver a recorded anti-DWI message to bar and restaurant patrons who make one last pit stop before getting behind the wheel.

I wonder what NM taxpayers think about this...

"Hey there, big guy. Having a few drinks?" a female voice says a few seconds after an approaching male sets off a motion sensor in the device. "It's time to call a cab or ask a sober friend for a ride home."

"And it's time for you to STFU."

The devices, manufactured by New York-based Healthquest Technologies Inc., were invented by Richard Deutsch. He said there's no other device like it on the market.

At last-- something to be thankful for.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-02-13 08:19|| 2007-02-13 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 "you call that a penis??"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-02-13 08:57|| 2007-02-13 08:57|| Front Page Top

#3 It's classic avoidance by the Donk pols, who run the state, to the issue of DWI which kills repeated and consistently around the state more than drivebys, WoT, or a bad batch of green chili croquets. They've passed all sort of laws, stiffer penalties, and have all sorts of enforcement, but they won't address the key non-player in the program, the judiciary. It's about every three or four months that another 'judge' is picked up DWI along with the usual repeat crowd and opportune mass murders. That's cause in the state the patron system of family and cousins and friends need to cover for each other. It's about who you know. Consider it Mexico lite.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-02-13 09:23|| 2007-02-13 09:23|| Front Page Top

#4 The best urinal idea I've heard of was what they did in the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. Each urinal had a small picture of a housefly painted on it, right at the optimal place to pee to minimize splashing. The found out that psychologically, it is almost irresistible to want to hit that damn fly.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-02-13 10:03|| 2007-02-13 10:03|| Front Page Top

#5 Talking urinal cakes giving advice? Orwell would wet himself laughing.

Posted by SteveS 2007-02-13 10:10|| 2007-02-13 10:10|| Front Page Top

#6 "Haven't you had enough, Senator and/or Congressman Kennedy?"

Posted by tu3031 2007-02-13 10:18|| 2007-02-13 10:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Add this one to the list of Great Rock Band Names-that-never-were.

Posted by Grunter 2007-02-13 10:41|| 2007-02-13 10:41|| Front Page Top

#8 I predict smashed "Urinal Cakes" on the bathroom floor.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-02-13 11:25|| 2007-02-13 11:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Talking or not, I'm not very fond of urinal cakes anyway, they're not very good-tasting... in fact, I've never tasted cakes so sour, and yet, I've eaten a lot of cakes in my life.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-02-13 12:13|| 2007-02-13 12:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Didn't Ren & Stimpy have a song: "Please don't ~~eat~~listen to the urinal cakes"?

Posted by xbalanke 2007-02-13 12:16|| 2007-02-13 12:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Ssooo, who gets to change the batteries?

Posted by BrerRabbit 2007-02-13 12:30|| 2007-02-13 12:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Lame. I thought it was going to do an urinalysis and send the result out to the database by WiFi.

Posted by KBK 2007-02-13 13:32|| 2007-02-13 13:32|| Front Page Top

#13 follow up to BR: who gets sued when / if said battery gets shorted out and the resulting charge flows up the discharge? anybody who has 'hit' an electric fence knows what (watt) i am talking about.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-02-13 15:04|| 2007-02-13 15:04|| Front Page Top

#14 It would be fun to reformat the cakes to play dixie chick songs. Now that would make sense. Hell I'd buy one and put in the outhouse. Right next to the stack of korans we used for toilet paper.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-02-13 16:18|| 2007-02-13 16:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Bar owners just need to call a cab for anyone arguing with the urinal cakes.

Posted by DMFD 2007-02-13 20:25|| 2007-02-13 20:25|| Front Page Top

#16 Icerigger - you're awesome!

Posted by Robjack">Robjack 2007-02-13 23:19|| 2007-02-13 23:19|| Front Page Top

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