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07 Jun 2011 11:11

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World: In Zimbabwe, people go to jail for using Robert Mugabe’s bathroom

  • cause A Zimbabewan police officer working a trade fair in Harare had to use the restroom last month, so he used one specifically reserved for president Robert Mugabe. Not the best move, but come on!
  • reaction Rather than laughing it off as no big deal, officials arrested the police officer and imprisoned for a month. He hopes that an appeal to his boss might be enough to overturn a ten-day sentence. source

10 Apr 2010 12:16

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Offbeat: RyanAir charges for bathrooms, American Restroom Association exists

  • It is a human right to freely eliminate yourself. It’s conceivable that people could be stuck on an airline for 15 to 20 hours. The idea of having only one bathroom in a situation like that is … strange.
  • University of Maryland professor Dr. Steven Soifer • Regarding RyanAir’s decision to cut the number of bathrooms from three to one, and make that one coin-operated. While he may miss the boat on some aspects of this (he argues that it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, even though RyanAir is a European company, on other aspects he’s dead-on. Fun fact: Soifer is the co-founder of the American Restroom Association and Shy Bladder Center, two organizations we can’t believe exist. source