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A special mirror is installed in the bathroom of a bar in China, causing controversy. With this mirror, I could see the women’s room on the other side from the men’s room.
According to the Chinese portal Sina.com, a video filmed in the bathroom of a bar in downtown Guilin, Guangxi Province on the 13th was uploaded online.
In the video, women were adjusting their clothes while looking in the mirror at the sink in the women’s bathroom. Across the street was the men’s restroom.
There was a mirror in the men’s restroom right in front of the urinal. However, this was no ordinary mirror.
There was a metal coating on the transparent glass that allowed you to see both the women on the other side and the inside of the women’s room. From the outside, it looked like an ordinary mirror.
While female customers were using the bathroom as usual without knowing this fact, they were able to sneak a peek at this figure while urinating in the men’s bathroom on the other side divided by a wall in the middle.
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Local netizens who watched the video were outraged, saying, “The design is disgusting,” “I won’t be able to go to the bathroom in the future,” “Obviously a criminal act,” “It was intentionally installed that way,” and “The bar would have promoted this mirror.”
Some argued that the sink with the mirror was ‘public’, not for women only. Then netizens pointed out, “What’s important is that the sink is shared. Anyway, it’s a crime.”
The Guilin Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, which received the report, said, “We have not received any related reports before. If the situation is true, we will take action immediately.”
Meanwhile, this is not the first time such a special mirror has been installed. In 2016, a landlord in Beijing installed a double-sided mirror in her bathroom, but she was caught by a female tenant.
In 2018, a similar incident occurred in the men’s bathroom of a bar in Beijing, and when a report was received, the owner of the bar publicly apologized.
In addition, controversy arose when it was belatedly known that the mirror installed in front of the sink in the women’s bathroom of a bar in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province in 2021 was also a special mirror.
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