Does your Tim Hortons have a used needle container in their restrms

[NFLDERS]

This is being reported on FB here, with mixed reactions. As yet I have not seen one. I should add mixed mostly because the needles were all askew sticking out the top of the container. However, not solely for that reason.

 

[Queen of the WDW Scene]

I usually just do drive thru or if I go in I don't usually use the bathroom so I'm not sure but I almost wonder if its more of a Canada thing vs US.

Reminds me I'm totally getting a maple waffle breakfast sandwich and hot chocolate this weekend

 

[bigbabyblues]

The closest Tim Hortons is over an hour away, but I have never seen a sharps container in a restaurant bathroom nor would I want to. I get that diabetics sometimes need to take an insulin shot but I seriously doubt that is the reason the container is there.

 

[kimblebee]

This is being reported on FB here, with mixed reactions. As yet I have not seen one. I should add mixed mostly because the needles were all askew sticking out the top of the container. However, not solely for that reason.

I don’t know, but my daughter has reported that Timmies here have black lights in the bathrooms now, apparently because it makes finding a vein to shoot drugs impossible.

 

[tzolkin]

I think it’s pretty normal to have sharps containers in bathrooms. I see them all the time and I have never given it a second thought.

Is there something specific about Tim Hortons that is making this newsworthy? I feel like I must be missing something.

 

[bcla]

I don't find it all that unusual. Seen sharps containers around for years in both the US and Canada.

I remember mentioning it once while I was at a casino in Illinois at dinner with my mom's coworkers (long story why I was there). One of them seemed to be familiar with them and said they were primarily for insulin injection.

 

[bcla]

I think it’s pretty normal to have sharps containers in bathrooms. I see them all the time and I have never given it a second thought.

Is there something specific about Tim Hortons that is making this newsworthy? I feel like I must be missing something.

I suppose some are equating them with illegal drug injection.

 

[Colleen27]

I've never noticed one at Tim Hortons, in the U.S. or in Canada, but I have seen a few public restrooms that have them and assumed (probably naively, but it was before the opioid epidemic really started to take off) that they were for people who needed them for medical reasons.

I do know that a handful of fast food places in a community near me have taken some precautions with the restrooms after a couple of overdose deaths in the establishment, but that has involved keeping them locked and checking them more often, not providing sharps disposal facilities.

 

[amberpi]

Can't speak to TH as it's been forever since I went in one (I'm that weird person who doesn't enjoy donuts, or sweet pastries), but I see them in larger establishments not infrequently. Yet again, I naively thought they were for diabetics, etc.

 

[ronandannette]

I think it’s pretty normal to have sharps containers in bathrooms. I see them all the time and I have never given it a second thought.

Is there something specific about Tim Hortons that is making this newsworthy? I feel like I must be missing something.

I think the same thing. I can't really say where or when I've seen them; but I know I certainly have often enough that they're not particularly noteworthy.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

I don’t know, but my daughter has reported that Timmies here have black lights in the bathrooms now, apparently because it makes finding a vein to shoot drugs impossible.

A popular PA gas station that also offers a decent food menu also has changed over their restroom lights, for that very reason.

 

[LAB81018]

Had them in all of the restrooms at work.

 

[BLAZEY]

Yes and they have for a while. Black lights too. I live in a city where we have been hit with many drug overdoses. We get many mentally ill and homeless people "moving" too as due to our fair weather they have a much greater chance of not dying of exposure in the winter. There is a great need of mental health services, but it doesn't help when those from out of province put excess strain on already not enough resources.

 

[jiminyC_fan]

Interesting. I have never seen any containers outside of a doctor's office.

 

[kdonnel]

Every mall I have been to has a sharps container in the bathroom.

Didn’t know I was supposed to be alarmed.

 

[mmouse37]

I have seen them in many public places. Fast food bathrooms, government building bathrooms, hospital bathrooms, etc. I know they are in every Disney Cruise Line public bathroom I have been in.

MJ

 

[BLAZEY]

Yes and they have for a while. Black lights too. I live in a city where we have been hit with many drug overdoses. We get many mentally ill and homeless people "moving" too as due to our fair weather they have a much greater chance of not dying of exposure in the winter. There is a great need of mental health services, but it doesn't help when those from out of province put excess strain on already not enough resources.

Not saying they are there specifically for drug users (well maybe the black lights). I know many insulin dependent diabetics and I am sure there are other prescribed medicines dosed with needles as well.

 

[msjprincess]

I've never been to a Tim Horton's but I have seen sharp containers in multiple bathrooms over the years. I never gave it a second thought.

 

[hellokitty86]

They have them in every restroom at Disney World.

 

[firefly_ris]

Hmm, I've never really noticed or paid attention. But most of the time I'm going through the drive-thru at Tim's anyway.