Pee all you can pee @ Vancouver’s Opus bar
p2pnet view Cool:- “The chic ’see-and-be-seen’ OPUS Bar in world-renowned OPUS Hotel Vancouver, now boasts a new re-mix of eccentric furniture with an affluent disregard for style rules”, says the Opus Hotel.
Style rules aren’t all that’s eccentric or disregarded.
“Glass-walled restrooms and live video feeds allow you to always keep an eye on the action and indulge your inner voyeurism”, it brags.
Glass-walled rest-rooms? But surely that means …
It does. Not only but also, video monitors ensure no one misses anything.
“There are no signs in the bar warning patrons they’re on camera, but the bar menu does mention that the restrooms feature ‘live video feeds to keep an eye on the action’,” says the CBC, going on management at the hotel explained that it’s “all part of Opus’s playful attitude”.
According to general manager Nicholas Gandossi, “It’s quite unique, and I think that’s why we get people coming off the street to come and see the live feeds. It’s definitely meant to be a bit of tongue-in-cheek.”
But “I think there’s a crime involved here,” the story has Richard Rosenberg, president of the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association stating.
“I think it’s a violation of the privacy law here in B.C.”
Enjoy heady aromas and the sound of flushing toilets while you chat with a friend.
The pic is on the hotel’s web page. No! Really! 
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Not to worry, though. If there are more complaints, the hotel might consider changing the video system, the story adds.
(Cheers, RW)
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CBC – Vancouver bar’s urinal TVs raise concern, August 18, 2010
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August 20th, 2010 at 11:26 am
I’ve been in and out of some pretty whacked and fetish style places while growing up in Montreal.
The hotel should just advertise exactly what they are doing and make people fully aware.
Who knows, the kids may like the “thrill”, while at the same time the Hotel has an open and honest policy of informing all patrons.
I don’t see it as a privacy issue at all if patrons are fully aware. However, in this case, it’s clear patrons are not at all aware. So that should be fixed.
August 20th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
OH MY GOD!!! You mean that when someone goes into the restroom, they can see EXACTLY THE SAME THING as they can when they’re standing in the bar itself???
August 20th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Depends how the camera is hanging I guess. Strange it’s only in the men’s washroom… anyhow, the hotel invites people to “indulge your inner voyeurism”. Guess you are supposed to go to the can and masturbate to the cleavage and up-skirt shots the CAM picks up…
Or watch your date scratch her ass while she thinks you’re not looking… eh
August 22nd, 2010 at 8:20 am
Hotel video system, which is the most important in the whole security system, so what are the problems in that?