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I thank the insightful Skitzo for the pointer.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on February 28, 2009 at 07:28 AM in Religion | Permalink
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Looks like a trend - Ryanair is pondering a loo charge on flights - see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7914542.stm
Posted by: missmarketcrash at Feb 28, 2009 9:46:42 AM
Probably taken around Mardi Gras when clean public restrooms are scarce. So it's a public service and a fundraiser. Blessed relief?
Posted by: cb at Feb 28, 2009 11:14:41 AM
Given that it is New Orleans, where the art of ripping off tourists has reached an art form found nowhere else in the U.S. (I hear tell people still fall for "I bet I know where you got your shoes"), I'll bet it's a lie.
Posted by: Paul Gowder at Feb 28, 2009 11:53:45 AM
In Russia charging for use of a public restroom is the norm. 5 rubles can be hard to find when you have had a little too much to drink!
I wonder if people at Mardi Gras have the same tendency to find bushes?
Posted by: R. Pointer at Feb 28, 2009 12:15:17 PM
wow.
Posted by: raft at Feb 28, 2009 2:35:07 PM
When it comes to ripping off tourists, New Orleans doesn't hold a stick to Las Vegas. It's an entire city engineered to separate people from money, as efficiently as possible.
Posted by: efp at Feb 28, 2009 3:35:51 PM
that was taken just across from my house... indeed it was during mardi gras, when bathrooms (clean or otherwise) are in tight supply. finding bushes risks the police finding you, and stories of arrest and fines for such behavior during that week are legion. With an influx of (I believe) around a million people, this is understandable. The was not the only toilet selling operation going on during the last couple of weeks, I can assure you.
Posted by: at Feb 28, 2009 4:12:08 PM
Opening up your church to rent the restrooms is not much different from opening up your parking lot to rent the parking spaces -- other than the fact that cleaning up your parking lot after drunks have been there is a lot easier.
Posted by: ZBicyclist at Feb 28, 2009 4:39:34 PM
Opening up your church to rent the restrooms is not much different from opening up your parking lot to rent the parking spaces
Because of course churches see themselves as profit-maximizing organizations, just like commercial parking lot companies.
Posted by: Bernard Yomtov at Feb 28, 2009 9:22:26 PM
What? You don't think churches rent out their parking lots? It's almost impossible to find a parking spot in Austin near UT. Several nearby churches rent weekday spots to commuting students by the month.
Posted by: Donna B. at Feb 28, 2009 10:38:23 PM
The business of charging for toilets in Russia dates back to the communist era.
I have long found it to be one of those unexplained phenomena of economics that
one finds paying for toilets commonplace in more socialist countries, whereas
it is in the capitalistic USA that we view free toilets as a right.
Posted by: Barkley Rosser at Mar 1, 2009 1:54:01 PM
@Bernard Yomtov: At least in the US, churches renting out parking lot space often occurs where it is commercially viable (near sports stadiums and universities, most obviously). And why not?
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