Tuesday, January 27, 2009

I'm Puzzled

While reading an article in the UK Daily Mail, I came across this photograph:



Could someone from UK or familiar with the customs there explain why the toilet seat is chained down?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's a "girl thing", crosses all cultures (where toilet seats are used, anyway).

It's a way to keep the lid down, because they hate getting up to pee in the middle of the night and falling in.

Anonymous said...

Asians are known to stand on the seat to defecate. They straddle it and try to dump into the toilet with varying degrees of success.
The chain keeps the seat from sliding away and causing them to fall.

Bob said...

Anonymous (10:33:00 AM) Thanks, that sounds like the true answer. I'd heard that Asians have that habit, didn't know it was the cause of safety measures such as chains.

Anonymous said...

The chains are there for customer convenience. They are locked onto the customer when the loo is in use, to prevent accidental drowning.