China’s High-Tech Tool to Fight Toilet Paper Bandits<br />According to a China Radio International report, the Temple of Heaven Park has supplied toilet paper<br />in its public toilets for the last 10 years, but found that supplies were quickly exhausted.<br />Most public restrooms in China do not provide any toilet paper, while others provide a common roll for visitors to use.<br />By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZMARCH 20, 2017<br />BEIJING — The toilet paper thieves of the Temple of Heaven Park were an elusive bunch.<br />Before entering restrooms in the park, visitors must now stare into a computer mounted on the wall for<br />three seconds before a machine dispenses a sheet of toilet paper, precisely two feet in length.<br />Now the authorities in Beijing are fighting back, going so far as to install high-tech toilet<br />paper dispensers equipped with facial recognition software in several restrooms.<br />But hidden in their oversize shopping bags and backpacks was a secret: sheet upon<br />sheet of crumpled toilet paper, plucked surreptitiously from public restrooms.
