For my Friday
frivolity today, I offer you the latest in Singapore’s comprehensive, erm,
comprehensiveness: the Pee
Analyzer.
In an attempt to stem
the tide of drunk driving, a posh nightclub has installed devices in the men’s
room urinals that detect the alcohol level in a user’s pee. The devices are
keyed to RFID cards that patrons get when they valet park their car, and the
level is recorded on the card. If it’s over the legal limit, a sign lights up
advising him he should consider alternative transport home.
(Not, you’ll notice,
that he should stop drinking. It is in a bar, after all.)
The RFID card gets
swiped again at the parking valet station, and the patron gets another chance
to decide not to get behind the wheel.
This video ‘splains
it all, although you have to wade through a lot of annoying music to get to it.
They claim that in a
two-week period the pee analyzers ratted out 573 sloshed patrons, of whom 342 used
the drive-home service or called a cab. I find those numbers not massively
impressive—fewer than 40 per night? Although I suppose a lot of men’s room
users could have been walk-in patrons.
As for women—they have
to determine their level of consumption the old-fashioned way: waking up with a
massive hangover, possibly in a bed not their own.
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