Elderly man denied access to Saskatoon washroom brings to light public access problem

At the end of the day its private property.

Yup. And how those businesses choose to serve the public should factor in to how people patronize the business.

As a result of the need for more public washrooms, Time Hortons for example places a "Go Here" sticker in their windows to indicate that washrooms are for public use, not just for customers or staff.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/ ... e25327995/

Tim Horton's knows when someone uses their washrooms they might grab a coffee after. The gas station has the right to tell the elderly man he can't use the washroom but it's still a C**tish move.

The gas station closed the restrooms to the public because the public kept leaving used syringes in the bathrooms after they'd been in there shooting up.

Seems to me the cost of the bad press is far less than the liability they'd incur from someone getting a needle stick along with God-only-knows-what kind of disease.

Yes, sounds like they have a rough clientele. I guess the problem is when they try to discriminate between who they let us the restroom. But they could make a customer only policy - probably not too many junkies pulling up in their cars to shoot up. Drunks tho, are another matter. Sounds like they had plenty of them too.

andyt your ignorance is showing. Lots of people you would never guess are using. Remember the add about the percentage of inner city drug use. The rest isn't. I don't live in a bad neighbourhood but I there was a dealer down the street he went to jail the kids went into care and his wife went to treatment got clean. It was hard to miss their lives crash and burn.

When I was working downtown we kept our bathroom locked. We did make exceptions and we probably would have let him use it. There were times we wanted to take a flame thrower to the bathroom instead of cleaning it. I'm still trying to figure out how the crack whores made any money cause some of them were walking dead. The sores on them nasty.

Probably cuz they're so out of it they think $20 is money these days...

And? These middle class users you're talking about are shooting up in gas station bathrooms? Probably not. The people leaving needles everywhere are the street junkies. And the people making a mess and damage are more likely drunks.

awwww andyt it's almost like you think you know what your talking about.


I may have only been on the fringe but one thing I did learn very quickly is never ever trust or turn your back on an addict. They will do anything/anybody, sell anything/anybody or kill for the hope of there next fix nothing else matters. None of them were above shooting up in a bathroom. I also noticed that a lot of them had phones and cars, doubtful they had licences or insurance but they had a car. And FYI street junkies as you put it for the most part didn't start out on the streets