Blue light special in the restrooms?

Posted by Patrick under Zurich + Brussels:2006

Yep. Even when battling social ills, those Swiss are using clever design solutions.

Apparently there are 2 ways of keeping junkies out of your public bathrooms.

One extremely common way is charge to use the pissoir — up to CHF1 per use in some places.

This department store is using the other way — blue lights in the stalls. If you’re looking for a vein into which that next hit of smack should go, the blue light makes it almost impossible to find one.