I'm surprised this isn't in florida. lol. but hoenstly, if i was standing there, pissing & drunk, and all of a sudden the urinal started talking to me...i'd freak out. and not in a good way.

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courtesy of KOAT, New Mexico 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.

CNN also has a video here: http://www.cnn.com/offbeat/index.html but i couldn't get it to work.

also, think of the maintenance....i'd hate to be the person who has to replace those....

"You drink, you drive, you lose."?

That isn't effective at all. To "Lose" sounds like I'm playing a video game.

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if the toilet started talking to me i'd pee on it.

Shit in the urinal. Maybe it'll shut that little guy up.

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Originally posted by Marc Summers "You drink, you drive, you lose."? That isn't effective at all. To "Lose" sounds like I'm playing a video game.

game over man, game over.

If I can get one of these babies, I'm sure I could h4x it to say other, funnier stuffs.

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Originally posted by josh4 itd be much cooler if they spoke your BAC

That's great and all but I don't really see much out of this, either. So now you know what you predicted beforehand. You're drunk. It's all kinda silly, really.

Can you imagine some company going ahead and paying for advertising with these things? What a horrible future.

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Originally posted by Yan That's great and all but I don't really see much out of this, either. So now you know what you predicted beforehand. You're drunk. It's all kinda silly, really. Can you imagine some company going ahead and paying for advertising with these things? What a horrible future.

You could always have the cakes whisper "I heard that there are cops down the road pulling over drunk drivers!"

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