Thai Toilets for UK Jails

[dirtydog]

Jail throws £10k down the pan


By JAMIE PYATT
April 23, 2007

A PRISON is spending £10,000 on “hole in the ground” toilets because some foreign lags hate sitting down when they go.

The jail — where 90 per cent of inmates are from abroad — has been flooded with complaints from crooks who want to squat like they do at home.
So a new toilet facility is being built at HMP Canterbury, Kent, at taxpayers’ expense.
Each loo has a hole and a ceramic tray with no seat and non-slip flooring — like those found in continental roadside services and bars.
An insider said: “It is a joke really. We have modern, smart toilet facilities here but we have to spend another £10,000 for holes in the ground.
“I wonder what they’d say in Thailand if an English prisoner asked for a sit-down one?”
Prison governor Chris Bartlett said: “We are a very diverse establishment. The reality is that vast tracts of the world don’t use a standard European toilet.”
Deputy head of residential services Dave Lambourne said the loos are being fitted “out of courtesy”, mainly for the use of prisoners from the Far East.
Last year The Sun exclusively told how HMP Brixton rebuilt some of its toilets so Muslim inmates do not have to face Mecca while relieving themselves.

The Sun

[slimboyfat]

Last year The Sun exclusively told how HMP Brixton rebuilt some of its toilets so Muslim inmates do not have to face Mecca while relieving themselves.

The Sun

well thanks to The Sun for that piece of vital info

[Spin]

“I wonder what they’d say in Thailand if an English prisoner asked for a sit-down one?”

"Mai me"?

[The Gentleman Scamp]

Where's Mecca, and couldn't they just close their eyes?

[keda]

Is it me or does it mean the Nick's toilet seats cannot face east or west, or ne sw nw se either, since these can inflame the more obtuse sensitivities and if they can they will, so we're looking at pole allignments throughout, which in time must be taken up by other pc jails, then first government and later all public buildings, parks, cinemas, restaurants, and museums...who knows, it may one day be apostasy to install toilets in any but the n/s allignment.

Btw, why do Muslims have to face east to pray, even when they are east of Mecca?

[Marmite the Dog]

Btw, why do Muslims have to face east to pray, even when they are east of Mecca?

They don't; they're supposed to face Mecca.

[DrB0b]

who knows, it may one day be apostasy to install toilets in any but the n/s allignment.

May Odin defile their women! Valhalla lies to the North!

[Dougal]

Deputy head of residential services Dave Lambourne said the loos are being fitted “out of courtesy”, mainly for the use of prisoners from the Far East. Last year The Sun exclusively told how HMP Brixton rebuilt some of its toilets so Muslim inmates do not have to face Mecca while relieving themselves.

This is the sort of thing thta happens when you put the lunatics in charge of the asylum. Another reason why any Brit that can, is trying to get out of the country.

[Marmite the Dog]

Wouldn't it be cheaper to sent any muslim offenders back to whatever cesspit they came from?

[mrsquirrel]

They have GPS in their prayer matts.

[Spin]

along with machete and C4









*alledgedly

[Begbie]

who knows, it may one day be apostasy to install toilets in any but the n/s allignment.

May Odin defile their women! Valhalla lies to the North!

Nice one. I'm sure you'll find something to upset everyone at all major points of the compass. The path of the dead lies to the west.

[meepho]

Deputy head of residential services Dave Lambourne said the loos are being fitted “out of courtesy”, mainly for the use of prisoners from the Far East. Last year The Sun exclusively told how HMP Brixton rebuilt some of its toilets so Muslim inmates do not have to face Mecca while relieving themselves.

This is the sort of thing thta happens when you put the lunatics in charge of the asylum. Another reason why any Brit that can, is trying to get out of the country.

ain't that the truth

[Gerbil]

Some years back I was working for a very well known Swedish company. One day a new contractor started who was a muslim. Mid morning he whips out his prayer mat in the middle of the office and starts with the prayer business while the rest of the department looks on in puzzled silence.

That afternoon the department manager called him into his office and said they had no problem accomodating his religious beliefs but it was disruptive to the office environment and could he please use the staff toilet instead of the middle of the office.

He quit the same day. Turns out the only way he could face east in the toilets would have involved going into one of the cubicles and dunking his head in the bowl each time he went down.