We all enjoy giggling at strange Japanese inventions from time to time, but rarely are their products really that weird. It’s a different culture with different sensibilities, is all. I mean, what person on the planet wouldn’t enjoy pissing in a cardboard box while sitting in gridlocked traffic? Right? Who’s with me?
When you see this portable toilet from Kaneko Sangyo Company, called the “Kururmarukun,” don’t just look at it as a some-assembly-required cardboard toilet bowl with a water-absorbent sheet and a concealment curtain. Think of it as Japan’s gift to a cross-legged world, too proud to get out of their cars and take a leak in a ditch but not too proud to fill up box with their own urine.
(I realize men have it easier than women when it comes to mobile liquid evac, but I can’t imagine any American crawling into the back of their SUV and using this thing. Which is a shame, in a way. It would at least give all the other people stuck in traffic something to watch.)
Kaneko Sangyo portable toilet is small enough to fit inside a car! [FarEastGizmos.com via Coolest-Gadgets]
You may not be aware of it, but in the western U.S. there is a huge problem with long-haul truck drivers who fill empty water bottles with urine and then chuck them out the window into the ditch along the interstate. It’s really disgusting, not to mention an environmental hazard. It would be nice if those same truckers would see fit to pull off the road for a moment and use this cardboard crapper (and dispose of the contents properly)!
It’s the same in the UK now. The drivers are on such tight schedules that they can’t stop apart from for their legally-mandated rest times, so the roadsides are full of bottles of man-wine.
It’s not just truckers; I’ve seen the same thing on country roads that are too small for big rigs.
I’m assuming that this portable “toilet” (more like a diaper, really) is for #2, since even women can use a bottle if they have a funnel, or improvise one out of cardboard. I don’t see anyone using this, though, because you just know that the traffic would start to move two seconds after you got down to business…
Women can have it as easy as men. Technology is a wonderful thing.
Why don’t those truckers just pour it out at their next rest stop?
Crazy.
Anyway, the gadget name is misspelled…whatever.
Wow, A Hi-def piss jug
Could the author of this story PLEASE post where you can get this gizmo.