Since some of the nation is still in an uproar over bathroom issues I figured it would be a prime time to mention a bathroom related problem in China. The Temple of Heaven Park in Beijing,China was having a problem with people stealing toilet paper so they installed a facial recognition toilet paper dispensing system. The machine scans the face for 3 seconds then dispenses between 24-27.5 inches of tissue. The machine will not dispense more paper until a 9 minute period has passed,if more is needed for an emergency situation before that time has lapsed it can be obtained from the bathroom staff. As is common with machines they have quit working completely at times leaving only the bathroom staff to pass out the paper. Out of curiosity I looked up the price of facial recognition systems thinking that it would take a lot of toilet paper waste to pay for one but the ones I found were between $325-$680. It still seems like overkill but these times they are a changing.
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