On Nov 2, 2004, at 3:32, Jean Nathan wrote:
I love the flawed logic behind some of these. Happens in real life too.
My local council has removed some undercover seating in the town, which is
used by the holiday makers, elderly and disabled. During the night and
sometimes when the weather's not so good, the seats are used by drunks, who
make a real nuisance of themselves. The council's solution to the problem of
the drunks is to remove the seating.
A couple of years ago, there had been a rash of thefts at women's toilets at the Interstate rest stops. You'd hang your handbag on the hook provided (on the door in front of you) and, while you were helpless, you'd watch a hand reach over the door and remove it...
Different rest stops found different solutions to the problem. Some installed a hook or a little shelf next to the toilet paper dispenser (and next to you) . Some moved the door hook about 6" further down - it would take a very tall simian to reach that far over the door. But my "favourite" solution is the real money saver: some rest stops simply removed the hooks altogether... :)
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Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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