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Pay & Sit: The Private Bench


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Designer Fabian Brunsing has created a new type of park bench, and rather than being able to sit and read your newspaper for free, this is one you actually have to pay for.

As you will see in the video below, the Pay & Sit park bench features built in spikes, when you insert a half a Euro coin, the spikes retract and you are able to sit on the bench.

Pay & Sit: The Private Bench

When you time is up, an alarm sounds and the spikes pop up again, luckily the spikes seem to pop up slowly otherwise this could end up being quite painfull.

Geekosystem via Neatorama, Oh Gizmo

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  • Dave

    I can see a load of injury claims being submitted if this was to ever take off. Fortunately this will remain an idea and a bad one at that.

  • Saptarshi Masid

    revenue streams these days….

  • AUTOBAHN.DESIGN

    Seems like fun.. just bring loads of lube. (plus u save 1 Euro, which is always good in this economy)

  • Crazy

    Just put a board on top of it and you got a regular seat again, lol.

  • Ekko

    Why not just sit on the rock behind the trash can for free?

  • AB

    I think the bench company would get more revenue emitting adverts when someone sits down.

  • um- might he want to rethink this; perhaps make the tips rounded instead of pointed?

    It would be better as ‘uncomfortable’ to sit on rather than ‘dangerous’.

  • crunk

    This bench should be an art installation entitled “Fuck The Poor”

  • The Big Zero

    The big problem I see with this is that deaf people won’t be able to hear the alarm.

    Katawa Shoujo gets a man thinking about all sorts of odd things…