Hacking Self-Flushing Toilets

How often do you find yourself in a public restroom, proceeding with your business, only to have the public toilet start mad-flushing before you are ready for it to do so? Why does it do that? It did that because its built-in motion detector detected that you moved. Perhaps you put your purse down. Perhaps you reached for some toilet paper. Perhaps you merely coughed. It is a startling, disgusting, and scary experience, because when it comes right down to it, this robot toilet is splashing its germy public toilet water into your nether regions. Who knows WHAT diseases you could get?? To say nothing of all the small children these things terrorize every day, all over the country.

I promise you, some bright eyed over-eager engineer somewhere got some big paycheck from some over-eager plumbing and construction company, for this thoughtless over-engineered bioweapon that no one ever asked for. All in the name of, what, conveeeenience. WHOSE?

No, you’ve been robbed of the dignity of flushing your own toilet for the sake of being “modern”. Trendy. In some game of one-up-manship between architects and builders.

But you don’t have to put up with it. You can leverage this system’s weak spot. It must see you to flush on you. And you can blind it. With something as simple as a pack of sticky-notes carried in your purse or pocket when and wherever you expect to be out and about where these degrading dirty things are lurking.

Just find the little red light dot, and stick one of these things over it. Complete your business with peace of mind. Whisper the little mantra, “I Go In Peace”, and simply remove it from the public bathroom seeing eye when you are done. Wave goodbye, and leave.