The definition of dirty: when the crackheads turn up their noses

After four years' operation at a cost of $6.6m, Seattle's five automated, self-cleaning toilets are for sale on Ebay at $89k each:

ALAN BERNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES

In Seattle's Hing Hay Park, busker Greg Spence Wolf performs while a person trying to use the public toilet pries open malfunctioning doors.

In Seattle, problems arose almost immediately. Users left so much trash behind that the automated floor scrubbers had to be disabled, and prostitutes and drug users found privacy behind the toilets’ locked doors.

“I’m not going to lie: I used to smoke crack in there,” said one homeless woman, Veronyka Cordner, nodding toward the toilet behind Pike Place Market. “But I won’t even go inside that thing now. It’s disgusting.”