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Talking Urinal Cakes Offer Drinking And Driving Advice
KOAT.com via The Drudge Report ^ | 2:41 pm MST February 10, 2007 | Staff

Posted on 02/12/2007 2:47:51 AM PST by Paleo Conservative

SANTA FE -- New Mexico has taken 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.

The top of the devices feature the state DWI slogan -- "You drink, you drive, you lose."

Some Albuquerque bars installed the devices this week.

And the state Transportation Department 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 catches on.

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



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: 2008election; billrichardson; dwi; urinals
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You just can't make up stories like this.

I couldn't fit the entire title of the article so here it is below.

Talking Urinal Cakes Offer Drinking And Driving Advice

DWI Message Played During Men's Last Pit Stop Before Driving


1 posted on 02/12/2007 2:47:56 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative

:)


2 posted on 02/12/2007 2:49:25 AM PST by kinoxi
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To: Paleo Conservative

see:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1783139/posts


3 posted on 02/12/2007 2:50:24 AM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Are they the official "Hanoi Jane" urinal cakes?


4 posted on 02/12/2007 2:51:35 AM PST by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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To: xcamel

I sure hope the Admin Moderator doesn't consign this thread to the "General/Chat" forum the way the previous thread was. Governor Bill Richardson is going to use stuff like this for the basis of his presidential campaign in 2008 and what government can do.


5 posted on 02/12/2007 2:55:33 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative
This reminds me of an old country skit where a person put a loud speaker in a pubic two hole outhouse.
6 posted on 02/12/2007 2:56:06 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: Paleo Conservative

This idea story is racist. How are they gonna tell the ladies?


7 posted on 02/12/2007 3:01:44 AM PST by Dallas59 (Case Closed)
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To: Dallas59

Don't you mean sexist?


8 posted on 02/12/2007 3:03:42 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative

Betcha every one of those cakes gets stolen within hours of their deployment.


9 posted on 02/12/2007 3:10:27 AM PST by Fresh Wind (All we are sa-a-a-ying, is give Beast a chance.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Oh piss on it...


10 posted on 02/12/2007 3:11:24 AM PST by endthematrix (Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

Microphone?


11 posted on 02/12/2007 3:11:33 AM PST by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)
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To: Fresh Wind
But will they wash their hands afterwards?
12 posted on 02/12/2007 3:12:19 AM PST by endthematrix (Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

I'm sorry, but this has got to be one of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard. $21 each? A talking urinal cake? Does it slur its words so the drunk understands it? Oh, puh-leaze.


13 posted on 02/12/2007 3:12:35 AM PST by opocno (France, the other dead meat)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Any what do the Ladies have for DUI cakes??


14 posted on 02/12/2007 3:12:46 AM PST by tiger-one (The night has a thousand eyes)
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To: Fresh Wind

What kind of person steals a urinal cake? Who changes the batteries?


15 posted on 02/12/2007 3:13:48 AM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran

put a loud speaker in a pubic two hole outhouse.

Pubic?


16 posted on 02/12/2007 3:15:26 AM PST by fivecatsandadog (Don't let reality ruin your day.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

One on one intimate conversation...

17 posted on 02/12/2007 3:16:08 AM PST by endthematrix (Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Talking urinal cakes would probably do well on eBay.


18 posted on 02/12/2007 3:16:13 AM PST by Fresh Wind (All we are sa-a-a-ying, is give Beast a chance.)
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"What kind of person steals a urinal cake"

They're rarely stolen, most times they are simply mistaken for an after dinner mint.

19 posted on 02/12/2007 3:17:32 AM PST by Proud_texan (Just my opinion, no relationship to reality is expressed or implied.)
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To: tiger-one

No it was a speaker and they waited until a woman went into the outhouse and say things like "Lady, Could you move over, I'm working under here".

By Jerry Clower


20 posted on 02/12/2007 3:24:18 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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