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    New Mexico's solution to drunk driving: Urinal cakes!!

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070214/ap_on_fe_st/dwi_urinals_1

    SANTA FE, N.M. - New Mexico is taking 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.

    "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."

    Transportation Department spokesman S.U. Mahesh said the urinal cakes are a way to reach one group that's a target of state safety campaigns. Men commit about three times as many drunken-driving infractions as women.

    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.

    "The idea is based on the concept that there is no more captive audience than a guy standing at a urinal," Deutsch said. "You can't look right and you can't look left; you've got to look at the ad."

    Public awareness campaigns in New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Australia have used the devices, as have commercial advertisers.

    In New Mexico, the device uses the state DWI slogan "You drink, you drive, you lose."

    Some Albuquerque bars installed the devices this week, and the state 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 catch on, Mahesh said.

    The cakes have enough battery power to last about three months.



    tax $$ at work!! I would like one that screams in horror when peed upon, though :2angry:
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    I think this is great!! What a great way to stop drunk driving...have some urinal tell a man he's too shit-faced to drive. That would make me laugh like hell if I was drunk. I'd be showing all my friends.

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    Re: New Mexico's solution to drunk driving: Urinal cakes!!

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    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070214/ap_on_fe_st/dwi_urinals_1

    SANTA FE, N.M. - New Mexico is taking 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.

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

    Transportation Department spokesman S.U. Mahesh said the urinal cakes are a way to reach one group that's a target of state safety campaigns. Men commit about three times as many drunken-driving infractions as women.

    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.

    &quot;The idea is based on the concept that there is no more captive audience than a guy standing at a urinal,&quot; Deutsch said. &quot;You can't look right and you can't look left; you've got to look at the ad.&quot;

    Public awareness campaigns in New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Australia have used the devices, as have commercial advertisers.

    In New Mexico, the device uses the state DWI slogan &quot;You drink, you drive, you lose.&quot;

    Some Albuquerque bars installed the devices this week, and the state 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 catch on, Mahesh said.

    The cakes have enough battery power to last about three months.



    tax $$ at work!! I would like one that screams in horror when peed upon, though :2angry:
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    Looks like I'm going to have to visit my local bar this weekend to see if I can check one of these bad boys out! We have so many damn drunk driving accidents here that I think they're willing to do just about anything to try to deter people from driving drunk.
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    [quote author=LawChick link=topic=4853.msg189365#msg189365 date=1171509975]
    Looks like I'm going to have to visit my local bar this weekend to see if I can check one of these bad boys out! We have so many damn drunk driving accidents here that I think they're willing to do just about anything to try to deter people from driving drunk.
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    Re: New Mexico's solution to drunk driving: Urinal cakes!!

    Wouldn't it be lest costly to come out with talking toilets.&nbsp; That way both the women's and men's bathrooms can be monitored?

    I so have this picture of a guy standing over the urinal yelling at it&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:
    I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours.

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    usually when a guy is drunk they dont go to a bathroom

    they just pick a tree

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    [quote author=*peaches* link=topic=4853.msg190467#msg190467 date=1171584613]
    Do you live in New Mexico?
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    Yes I do. I'm not sure how I'll make my way into the men's bathroom but I'm going to give it a shot.
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    [quote author=LawChick link=topic=4853.msg192853#msg192853 date=1171854421]
    Yes I do. I'm not sure how I'll make my way into the men's bathroom but I'm going to give it a shot.
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    Re: New Mexico's solution to drunk driving: Urinal cakes!!

    Is it weird that when I read the title I got hungry?&nbsp; :|
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    [quote author=Nowheregirl link=topic=4853.msg193537#msg193537 date=1171947009]
    Is it weird that when I read the title I got hungry?&nbsp; :|
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    mmmm... cake :2tongue:
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    Re: New Mexico's solution to drunk driving: Urinal cakes!!

    Next thing you know bar staff will be handing out cups for urine samples....
    &lt;----Cost effective
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    Re: New Mexico's solution to drunk driving: Urinal cakes!!

    [quote author=Nowheregirl link=topic=4853.msg193542#msg193542 date=1171947624]
    Next thing you know bar staff will be handing out cups for urine samples....
    &lt;----Cost effective
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    mmm.... samples :-P
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    Re: New Mexico's solution to drunk driving: Urinal cakes!!

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    mmm.... samples :-P
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    Re: New Mexico's solution to drunk driving: Urinal cakes!!

    hmm

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    Does anyone else go to their local warehouse store when they're poor and hungry to eat all of the free samples or is that just me?&nbsp;
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    [quote author=LawChick link=topic=4853.msg195297#msg195297 date=1172074987]
    Does anyone else go to their local warehouse store when they're poor and hungry to eat all of the free samples or is that just me?&nbsp;
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    haha yeah i go to costco and eat all their free samples

    theyre actually pretty good

    well at least when youre really hungy

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    haha yeah i go to costco and eat all their free samples

    theyre actually pretty good

    well at least when youre really hungy
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    You can also get a hotdog and a soda for like a dollar. That's some good stuff.
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    Re: New Mexico's solution to drunk driving: Urinal cakes!!

    I pissed on one of these things right before I got my DWI.&nbsp; Its real affective let me tell you.

    I love what my tax money goes for.

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    [quote author=Royal Pain link=topic=4853.msg195571#msg195571 date=1172084583]
    I pissed on one of these things right before I got my DWI.&nbsp; Its real affective let me tell you.

    I love what my tax money goes for.
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    What bar were you at? What did it say?
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    Re: New Mexico's solution to drunk driving: Urinal cakes!!

    Fox and Hound, it had the &quot;you drink, you drive, you loose&quot; slogan on it.

    I can't remember exactly what it said, but something like &quot;hey big fella, you probably had to many drinks to drive, time to call a cab&quot; or something to that affect.

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    [quote author=Royal Pain link=topic=4853.msg195591#msg195591 date=1172085675]
    Fox and Hound, it had the &quot;you drink, you drive, you loose&quot; slogan on it.

    I can't remember exactly what it said, but something like &quot;hey big fella, you probably had to many drinks to drive, time to call a cab&quot; or something to that affect.
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    That is hysterical! I especially enjoy the &quot;big fella&quot; part. As if a machine in a toilet flattering you will convince you not to drive home.&nbsp; :lol:
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    [quote author=LawChick link=topic=4853.msg195597#msg195597 date=1172085860]
    That is hysterical! I especially enjoy the &quot;big fella&quot; part. As if a machine in a toilet flattering you will convince you not to drive home.&nbsp; :lol:
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    Yeah I know, I did enjoy pissing all over it though.&nbsp;

    And it obviously didn't convince me to not drive home, instead I made it a few blocks, and the very friendly APD officers gave me a ride to jail instead.

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    [quote author=Royal Pain link=topic=4853.msg195613#msg195613 date=1172086267]
    Yeah I know, I did enjoy pissing all over it though.&nbsp;

    And it obviously didn't convince me to not drive home, instead I made it a few blocks, and the very friendly APD officers gave me a ride to jail instead.

    DICKS!
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    That fucking sucks. I can't remember if you said you did a breathalizer or not.
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    Re: New Mexico's solution to drunk driving: Urinal cakes!!

    Yeah I did, I blew a 0.11.

    The cops had no reason to pull me over, and the field tests were conducted in that snow storm that we had last week, in the middle of jefferson, and they made me walk a curved line, not a straight one.

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    [quote author=Royal Pain link=topic=4853.msg195653#msg195653 date=1172087092]
    Yeah I did, I blew a 0.11.

    The cops had no reason to pull me over, and the field tests were conducted in that snow storm that we had last week, in the middle of jefferson, and they made me walk a curved line, not a straight one.
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    Who's your attorney? If you don't mind me asking....... It sounds like you shouldn't have too much of a problem.












    DISCLAIMER: I AM IN NO WAY PROMOTING, ENDORSING, ENCOURAGING OR APPLAUDING DRIVING WHILE DRUNK. THANK YOU.
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