Lavatory Liquidation

(Fox News) - The city of Seattle is selling its five high-end automated public toilets on eBay after the porta-potties became so filthy that even homeless drug abusers refused to use them.

The New York Times reports that while the starting bid for the toilets is $89,000 apiece, the city stands to lose considerably after officials spent one million taxpayer dollars on each unit. The restrooms were installed in early 2004. The facilities have doors that open and close at the touch of a button and can disinfect and clean themselves.

Seattle officials say the project failed because the toilets were placed in neighborhoods that already had drug users and transients. A homeless woman said, "I used to smoke crack in there. But I won't even go inside that thing now. It's disgusting."