Anti-Sit Technology: No Steam For You!

1. ted
   October 10th, 2007 at 5:58 am

   How sad. In many cases, it's probably a necessary reaction to skateboarders.

   It just looks really unfriendly.

2. algonkin
   October 10th, 2007 at 6:58 am

   LOL!! not even the pidgeons are allowed

3. Jason E.
   October 10th, 2007 at 6:58 am

   Absolutely ridiculous. 1984 anyone?

4. Capella
   October 10th, 2007 at 7:55 am

   Haha, this both funny and frightening. I mean, picture way in the past, lets say a millennium ago, an ancient futurist would predict:" ...and people will live in vast cities, the houses will be the tall towers stretching to the heavens, glowing like precious jewels...and the people will put sharp metal spikes everywhere so other people will not sit in various places."

   Why not just put scarecrows next to the fire hydrants?

5. Jake D.
   October 10th, 2007 at 11:23 am

   New York has been for too long known as a place for sitting.

6. Melissa
   October 10th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

   What a shame! The owner of the business could have spent the money he spent on the contraption to keep homeless people off his grate on charity programs that help get the homeless off the streets. That would have fought the problem at its source, and had a little compassion. What a heartless soul!

   Someone in my hometown has recently put up benches at some of the public bus stops (There were no bus benches at all before.). I ride the bus and was happy to see the benches go up, but then a took a better look at them. They're the type with the big divider bumps in them to discourage people from laying down on them. That's just sad. The benches are looking for advertisers for the signage part of the bench. I can't wait till they hit my business up and I get to give them a piece of my mind.

7. Nora
   October 10th, 2007 at 5:07 pm

   Just shows what we think of each other anymore. Irritations, like pigeons to be "shoo'ed" away. I can understand why they do it for things like pipes (that could be bent with too much weight), but planters? Sheesh! Why make something look like a bench if you don't want people to sit on it?

   I should make an "anti-spike" city seat cushion for the elderly. Hard puncture-proof top layer (with soft cover), with softer foam under-layer for the spikes to puncture/anchor into (so the seat dosn't wobble).

   You'd have to be a complete jerk to refuse a tired person a place of rest.

8. Vonskippy
   October 10th, 2007 at 7:12 pm

   Oh boo hoo. The US spends billions on it's welfare programs, yet you people want to begrudge businesses that actually work for their money (and pay the taxes for all those welfare programs) the right to protect their own property?

9. Simon
   October 11th, 2007 at 12:47 am

   Are we sure it's just because they don't want people on the vents, or that maybe people sleeping on/blocking the vents causes some sort of issues because the steam/hot air can't escape?

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