Toilets In China Install Cameras To Stop Toilet Paper Theft

[Stephen Cohen]

http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/toil...let-paper-theft-1671167?pfrom=home-topstories

 

[Stephen Cohen]

Toilets In China Install Cameras To Stop Toilet Paper Theft

For years, many residents have been taking reams of paper from public toilets for use at home.

BEIJING: Public toilets in Beijing have started using facial recognition technology to stop toilet paper theft after it became rampant.

At the Temple of Heaven, one of the capital's busiest tourist sites and a former hotbed of toilet paper kleptomania, a user in need of tissue paper must stand in front of a wall-mounted machine with a high definition camera, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.

The device's software remembers recent faces, and if the same a person reappears within a certain period, it refuses to activate the automatic roller.

For years, many residents have been taking reams of paper from public toilets for use at home.

Recently, Chinese media outlets investigated the phenomenon and found most of the tissue bandits were senior citizens. Such behaviour has placed a considerable financial burden on public toilet management.

Sometimes a newly replenished roll can disappear within a minute, leaving other users an empty holder.


The Temple of Heaven management said they also provided old-school rollers because not all visitors were accepting the new technology.



The facial camera required a user to remove their hat and sunglasses.

It prompted concerns about infringement of privacy, and the face recognition processing time, which is only meant to be three seconds, sometimes takes more than a minute, which is an added frustration for someone who is in a hurry to use the loo.

The smart toilet paper machine has prompted quite a discussion on mainland social media. Most people agree that the behaviour should be stopped. But a few said the public shouldn't get too wound up over the issue.

"The cheap paper in public toilet contains lots of toxic materials such as fluorescent agents. Excessive use will only damage their health," said a user on WeChat, the Post report said.

 

[Hassan Guy]

This is why we use water.

 

[James-bond]

 

[Dawood Ibrahim]

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

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[Hamartia Antidote]

 

[xyxmt]

who decided to watch 100s of people take shit only to stop toilet paper theft.

 

[egodoc222]

Ingenious idea!!
Billions of dollars can be saved!!

 

[Providence]

I thought china was a middle income country

 

[Imtiaz_Sarwar]

And they steal lotay. choor tay choor haan..kia Pakistan tay kya Qena.

In Saudi Arabia, they also use water. They don't have lotas. They have a small plastic pipe attached to a tap in the public washrooms. This is cultural difference between us and the saudis. Now who would steal a two foot plastic pipe fixed to a tap. Besides every body remembers the punishment for stealing very well.

 

[somebozo]

dumbest idea ever...instead..sell toilet paper outside the toilets...here a pack of 10 napkins cost 0.5 SR (half riyal) and many vendors sell it outside public toilet for 1 Riyal..

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

I thought china was a middle income country

I think they said they are about to pass Brazil...and even I don't hear about that happening in Brazil...and we all know how awesome Brazil is: