Robo Potties sound siren if you take too long
CBS4) FT. LAUDERDALE Some people are calling Ft. Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle "homophobic" over remarks he made in support of purchasing new electronic portable bathrooms.
Designed to hold one person at a time, the new robo-potties are self-cleaning, self locking, and have a special timer that opens the door and sets off a siren if it thinks you've been in there too long.
City Mayor Jim Naugle likes this timer feature of the robo-potties because he feels it would cut down on the "homosexual activity" normally associated with public bathrooms in some sections of Ft. Lauderdale.
"One of the reasons the committee recommended this type of single occupant facility is because of sexual activity that takes place in public bathrooms around South Florida, and this type of facility would be less susceptible to that," said Naugle in a statement from the Bahamas.
Naugle told CBS4's Joan Murray he has a stack of letters from concerned fathers whose sons play baseball at Holiday Park. The letters complain of men having sex in the park's public bathrooms.
Plans now are to install the new robo-commodes next to the city parking lot at Sebastian Street and State Road A1A; an area many locals call the city's 'gay beach.'
Fort Lauderdale plans to spend $250,000 to $350,000 for the robotic restroom, plus about $30,000 a year to service and maintain it.








