Atlanta’s public transit authority has begun installing $10,000 urine detectors to try to stop people from relieving themselves in subway elevators.
Apparently, MARTA — the eighth-largest public transit operator in the country — has a wee problem with public spaces doubling as urinals.
“If you’ve ever been in a Porta Potty, that’s what it smelled like before,” Tom Beebe, MARTA’s own Director of Elevators and Escalators, told WSB-TV.
The new sensors alert police the moment someone begins relieving him or herself so an arrest can be made mid-stream.
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Ponder: More sensors coming. This may seem like a funny story, but it illustrates how everything can be monitored.
