Re: Vents
Back when phone kiosks were still a thing, and took coins, BT introduced some new phones that were set lower so that wheelchair users could reach them. Unfortunately they discovered that Friday-night drunks using the kiosks as toilets then found it amusing to direct their flow into the lower-than-usual coin slots. The result was that the coin collectors who went to empty the coinboxes found them full of very unpleasant rusty sludge.
Many solutions were proposed & tried, but the one adopted was simple: a hole was made in the coin box, with a small pipe arranged so that any liquid that went in was redirected back out over the trousers and shoes of the originator. The problem went away.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
