Report: D.C. transit department spent about $500k on a broken toilet

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Monday, July 29, 2019
Report: D.C. transit department spent about $500k on a broken toilet
Report: D.C. transit department spent about $500k on a broken toilet. Sharrie Williams reports during Action News at 4 p.m. on July 29, 2019.

WASHINGTON D.C. (WPVI) -- A new report found that the transit department in Washington, D.C. spent about a half-million dollars to try and fix the same toilet over and over again.

This is no ordinary toilet, however.

It's supposed to be a self-cleaning toilet.

It was installed in 2003.

However, it never quite worked right, and was finally taken out of service earlier this year.

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