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The New York Times published an article about toilet paper theft and the use of technology to prevent it:
The toilet paper thieves of the Temple of Heaven Park were an elusive bunch.
They looked like most park visitors, practicing tai chi, dancing in the courtyards and stopping to take in the scent of ancient cypress and juniper trees. But hidden in their oversize shopping bags and backpacks was a secret: sheet upon sheet of crumpled toilet paper, plucked surreptitiously from public restrooms.
Now the authorities in Beijing are fighting back, going so far as to install high-tech toilet paper dispensers equipped with facial recognition software in several restrooms.
Before entering restrooms in the park, visitors must now stare into a computer mounted on the wall for three seconds before a machine dispenses a sheet of toilet paper, precisely two feet in length. If visitors require more, they are out of luck. The machine will not dispense a second roll to the same person for nine minutes.
This seems to be too funny to be real, but the article has an animated GIF that demonstrates this device's operation.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday March 21 2017, @09:42PM
... someone else's face ... what if you have a bag ...
A bag of faces sounds like a creepypasta story. Hmm how about a book instead of a bag... a book of faces... facebook?
Personally I think it would be funny to try and frame your friends and coworkers by holding up their linkedin/facebook picture to get TP such that they are locked out of TP for awhile. "Damnnit VLM you used my picture you son of a ... now I gotta find someone elses picture" Union activists will make sure the CEO never gets to wipe.
Another option which I think would be hilarious if a human periodically checks the scanned photos, I'd go on 4chan or reddit and show pr0n pix to the camera. I'm pretty sure theres a whole subreddit just for facials making this whole issue rather trivial.
One option to consider is shock pix. Or memes. I can totally imagine getting drunk and saying stuff in the stall like "Tub girl commands you, squirt out some more tp or else you're not gonna like the cleanup" "Jean Luc Picard says, number two, make it so" "help me obi wan kenobi, I need TP!" "hal, open the toilet paper bay door, hal" I wonder if pedo bear would recognize as a face and issue TP.
Imagine the fivver. "For $5 I'll draw you 10 hand drawn faces guaranteed to get you TP"