We used to have those everywhere in Vancouver. Unfortunately they got rid of them because teenagers were daring each other to strangle themselves unconscious using those things, and several people were badly injured or died.
I feel your pain too well. So many good things we could have in society, but due to a small minority of people ruining it for the rest of us.
Another poster mentioned that their child's high school didn't have any paper towels, which I can only assume is because the kids were wetting them and throwing them around the bathroom ceiling and walls to make them stick, which is something even I (regrettably) took part of as a middle school child.
Humans...