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Uncategorized Wednesday, July 14th 2010 at 4:30 pm

Pay This Bench Money or It Will Poke You With Spikes

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Design student Fabian Brunsing has devised a fiendish device that makes pay toilets seem positively munificent: Dubbed “Pay & Sit: The Private Bench,” it consists of a bench covered with retractable metal spikes and a coin slot. If you want to sit down on the bench without an array of spikes jamming you in the keister, you’ve got to pay €0.50 (about 70 cents US).

As seen below, this causes the spikes to retract so you can sit on the bench, and also activates a timer. Shortly before the timer expires, you’re warned by a buzzer to get up; then, the spikes shoot back up. Beware!

Video demonstration below:

PAY & SIT: the private bench (HD) from Fabian Brunsing on Vimeo.

(Treehugger via InventorSpot)

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  • fodmaster

    Awesome soon I will have to pay just to sit down!
    This would be so funny to see in the UK since somebody would probably destroy the change box to get some cash just like they do with the pay phones!

  • kylemac

    they should make a coin slot on the other side – if one person pays up another could sit on the other side of the bench for free! No free rides!

  • Ethan Li

    Why not just bring a foam cushion on which to sit?

  • Anonymous

    How crass

  • Aerosol_junky

    Fuck this Nazi bench. I hope someone destroys it.

  • Yourmom

    Nazi Bench? It’s just an art/design installation

  • Guest

    this is crazy

  • Ldelarge

    I would come back with a sledgehammer if I saw something like this.

  • matt

    This bench is not a nazi. This bench is a cut-throat venture capitalist, and it will do whatever it can to nail you in the balls.

  • Me

    I would sledgehammer his just on principle.

  • Anonymous

    Most stupid thing ever.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000409601875 Amanda Dodson

    easy to get around the spikes just sit on the back and you have a foot rest that has spikes

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Y66B3L5D4ZZMHOVOZEKT2TUZBI Johnathan

    I imagine the timer running out and the spikes being shoved up your ass.

  • H677130

     i wasn’t aware the bench was anti semitic

  • asquihyjollyrancher

    You people are idiots. This is to prevent bums from sleeping on the benches. They see a bench and think it’s home for a couple days. Believe me, cleaning up some guys trash and filth for a few days would make you want to install one of these.

  • Me

    I also hope someone smashes this fucking piece of shit bench. Fuck humans. Disgusting race.

  • Me

    I hope you’re homeless soon. You don’t deserve to have anything. Fuck you

  • Atty

    But then there could still be someone in the middle awkwardly sitting half-on the spiked. .-.

  • Atty

    And by spiked, I mean spikes.

  • Atty

    Sometimes when I sit down for too long my bum falls asleep too.

  • Joe4391

    Oh man, fuck the future!