Talking urinal cakes aimed to curb DWIs

9:00 PM, Jul 2, 2012   |    comments
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Bay City, MI (WNEM) - Men who make a pit stop at any of hundreds of Michigan bars may hear a public service announcement, in the bathroom - talking urinal cakes.

When you're out of town and hear voices, you may have had too much to drink; but not anymore. At restaurants and taverns all over Michigan, when men are in to do their business, it won't be the booze or the porcelain god talking, but a chatty little cake at the bottom of the urinal.

These digital pucks are motion, not liquid activated. A sultry voice, a Judy in the John, tells men not to drink and drive.

The $21 cakes last about three months and were paid for with a federal grant. They're part of a Fourth of July education and law enforcement effort in Wayne, Bay, Ottawa and Delta counties in Michigan.

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