Well, It Ain’t Pennies From Heaven
For years now, items have been turning up in the news raving about the high tech, superwhamadyne Japanese toilets. Of course, the occasional unflattering piece has shown up now and again, too. People tend to get cranky when their toilet bursts into flame.
But, nonetheless we here at the Crabitat have decided it is time to order a few of the wonder devices. I mean, there will be a shortage of them soon. As soon as people hear that they are dispensing cash.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Packages containing 10,000 yen (40 pound) bills have been found this week in men's toilets at government offices throughout Japan, baffling officials as to why and who would do them such service.
Most of the bills were accompanied by a hand-written message saying: "Please use them for disciplining," local officials said.
"The first thing that I thought was that someone must have misplaced it so that I have to report it right away," said an official working at the Saitama Prefectural government near Tokyo.
Public broadcaster NHK said cash totalling some 4 million yen had been found in men's rooms at local government offices in 18 prefectures.
That is our kind of litter. (Kind of out of character for the normally hyper-fastidious Japanese, isn't it?)
Weird Stuff, World news | Gaius Wednesday, 11 July , 2007
By Purple Avenger, Wednesday, 11 July , 2007 @ 3:06 pm
Water + electricity + human posteriors seems like a rather bad combination to me.
Sort of along the lines of a 3-phase 480V electric fork to automatically shove food in your mouth.