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Pay & Sit – The Private Bench

German designer Fabian Brunsing created a very unique Pay & Sit Bench specially for those who hate sharing their seats in a park.

In a normal state, the bench is all covered with metal spikes. If you want to sit and not hurt your rear end – you have to slip a 50 Euro cent coin (~66 cents US). Than the spikes retract, and you can comfortability sit for a fixed period of time before the alarm goes off. Few seconds after the buzzer spikes rise again.

It’s a pretty cool invention, however, imagine a drunk guy inserting a coin and falling asleep here. Or even worse – blind person looking for a seat in the park.

Some people even suggested making the bench more fun by making the spikes deploy very quickly after some random length of time. (via demilked)

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Date posted: Aug 5th, 2010
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  • AJSzilagyi

    that’s um… kind of mean

  • Amayzed

    That seems like an interesting idea but could be extremely dangerous :S

  • Diego

    Terrible invention…

  • nostradumbass

    To be fair, it doesn’t quite look like the spikes go all the way in – imagine catching your suit trousers on it if you scuffle forwards a little to get more comfortable – RRRRriiiip!

    It’s the sort of thing a skinflint would want at home for when the annoying guests come round – 2hour max, then you have to go home, as we have no seats for you XD

  • http://www.stormfront.org Bob Fairlane

    This has come to symbolize what is wrong with Europe. They are willing to be charged for things that should be free in a civilized society, and willing to be stabbed in the back by a skin-flint or jew for the “privelige” of resting a few moments in their slavish lives.

    I think I would rather sit on my luggage, or recycle a newspaper to sit down on a free bench.

  • whiteshadow

    Well. I am Russian and I’ll sit on the back of the bench. My legs will be on the seat, but who cares? However taking the seat on this bench will be free)

  • Evensong

    @Bob: Ah yes…beware the dreaded jew. Idiot.

  • http://twitter.com/HerrMoridanable Gianni

    This is… just fucking wrong. It sickens me!