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Letter: Down the pan

Published 24 August 2002

From George Macdiarmid

The Feedback item on the surprising toilets at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport doesn’t mention just how surprising the toilets really are (10 August).

All of the toilets automatically flush, and have a sensor to ensure that the person is nowhere near when it does so. Unfortunately they are set halfway up the wall, so when a small child sits down they flush immediately. We almost lost my sister down one of them.

Frome, Somerset

Issue no. 2357 published 24 August 2002

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