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Alzheimer's patients foiled by fake bus stop

Submitted Friday, July 23, 2010 by adam | Category: Odd
Brilliant, but sad. The bus stop, in front of the Benrath Senior Centre in the western city of Düsseldorf, is an exact replica of a standard stop, with one small difference: buses never stop there. The purpose is to "trap" Alzheimer patients that wander away from the hospital. "They know the green and yellow bus sign and remember that waiting there means they will go home.” The result is that errant patients now wait for their trip home at the bus stop, before quickly forgetting why they were there in the first place."
  
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by TheHumanMan at 7/25/2010 12:23:41 PM Score 0  Cool Weak
I would have said that Drunk Bastard designed this but there was no trap door with an alligator pit beneath the bus stop.
by kelbeldesign at 8/1/2010 9:32:46 AM Score 0  Cool Weak
Amazing! What a kind way to solve the problem.
by adam at 10/11/2010 6:45:20 AM Score 0  Cool Weak
I love this

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