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SEATTLE — After spending $5 million on its five automated public toilets, Seattle is calling it quits. The rest rooms, installed in early 2004, had become so filthy, so overrun with drug abusers and prostitutes, that although use was free of charge, even some of the city’s most destitute people refused to step inside them.
Ideally, the units clean themselves after each use, disinfecting the seats and power-washing the floors. They were put up for sale on Wednesday afternoon on eBay, with a starting bid set by the city at $89,000 apiece.
