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Arapiles new toilets vandalised 12-Apr-2012 At 11:31:25 AM kuu

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On 3/04/2012 STEALTH wrote:
>The new toilets in The Gums were vandalised within 48 hours of being installed.
>All the door locks were smashed and bowls filled with full dunny rolls.
>The Ranger had to spend half a day cleaning them.
>
I think there may have been some loosely reported details in this post.

I was one of the early 'customers' of these new toilets after Peter Hawker declared them open. And yes, by the second day some of the door latches (not including the Disabled Toilet) were broken. BROKEN, not necessarily smashed, and perhaps this may have been due to the use of 'domestic quality' hardware rather than items designed for heavy public usage.

The new toilets are of the 'long-drop, pit-style' and have a large opening directly to the holding tank below. There is NO toilet bowl and it's hard to imagine a toilet roll large enough to fill this opening. I suspect the reference to this sort of thing happening relates to the 'old' flush toilets below The Pines and I recall, years ago, Ranger Max talking about having to deal with such behaviour.

And in respect of some other posts on this topic, yes, there were school groups based in the North Campground/Gums area at the time (last full week prior to Easter) but it seemed to me that they were mostly using the old toilets (because of night time illumination?).