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It just gets stranger every day! You can't make this stuff up.
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Talking Urinal Cakes Offer Drinking And Driving Advice

DWI Message Played During Men's Last Pit Stop Before Driving

POSTED: 2:30 pm MST February 10, 2007
UPDATED: 2:41 pm MST February 10, 2007
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SANTA FE -- New Mexico has taken its fight against drunken driving to men's restrooms around the state.
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.
The top of the devices feature the state DWI slogan -- "You drink, you drive, you lose."

Some Albuquerque bars installed the devices this week.
And the state Transportation Department plans to distribute them to Santa Fe bars and restaurants as well as establishments in Farmington, Gallup and Las Cruces.
The state spent $21 for each talking urinal cake for the pilot program but will ask bars and restaurants to pay for future orders if the idea catches on.
The cakes have enough battery power to last about three months.

The state of New Mexico 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.

The "Wizmark" device subjects users to a female voice reading the following script: "Hey there, big guy. Having a few drinks? Listen up. Think that you've had a few too many? Then it's time to call a cab or ask a sober friend for a ride home. It sure is safer and a hell of a lot cheaper than a DWI. Make the smart choice tonight. Don't drink and drive. Remember, your future is in your hand."
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badbob
 
I forsee a lot of broken pieces of plastic in Men's restrooms in these bars.


I'm actually waiting to see the counter suit. Some woman who gets drunk and gets a DUI or wrecks her car will sue the bar for failure to provide the women's facilities with a similar device...:eek:


Remember, you heard it from me first....:cool:
 
I'm actually waiting to see the counter suit. Some woman who gets drunk and gets a DUI or wrecks her car will sue the bar for failure to provide the women's facilities with a similar device...
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jfrey 123, good point.
The "Wizmark" device subjects users to a female voice reading the following script: "Hey there, big guy.
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At least this device is using a female voice. What if it used the voice of Agent Smith in "The Matrix"! Wouldn't that be a pi... uh, bummer?:eek: I wonder who dreams this kind of stuff up?

badbob
 
I'm sure if the bad guys had their way there would be such a device on all fire arms. Maybe breathalyzers on fire arms, too?
 
It's not hard to imagine in New Mexico. The legislature there proposed putting DUI breathalyzers on every vehicle. Anybody who takes advice from a urinal cake is on a par with someone who lets a 12 year old girl tell them they shouldn't carry a handgun. Now, a urinal cake that analyzes the whiz and reports back on the alcohol content might have some merit. The concept could be used to advertise any number of products...like beer.
 
Now, a urinal cake that analyzes the whiz and reports back on the alcohol content might have some merit. The concept could be used to advertise any number of products...like beer.
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OR.. Pfizer, Merck, etc. Aaahhh!!:eek:

badbob
 
Big Brother, Big Sister

"The state ... will ask bars and restaurants to pay for future orders"


Yeah sure. They will ask after they write another silly law??

Stat 132.023 : All lounge owners are required to have "Big Sister Talking Toilets" installed and in working order, under penalty of loosing their license.
 
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