Comments on: Ways of combating toilet vandalism are considered

By: A.J.

A.J. — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:47:18 +0000

19p profit. Now that’s what I call a tax!

By: Michael R

Michael R — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:58:33 +0000

Of course, one could use the method that is used in many countries; i.e. have a toilet attendant present and charge to use the facilities.

Most people would happily part with 20p to ‘spend a penny’.

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By: North of Alderney

North of Alderney — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:06:49 +0000

‘If you are a man the world is your toilet’

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By: Les Pets

Les Pets — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:56:31 +0000

If and when our wonderful police force catch these vandals the courts should make them pay all costs and do community service to repair them.

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By: Glanzstar

Glanzstar — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:24:13 +0000

Why would people that use the area smash up the toilets? Just means they have nowhere to go when nature calls.

I would take a guess this was done by drunk people leaving town

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By: Cheerful Charlie

Cheerful Charlie — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:05:55 +0000

The swipe card thing is a good idea. At airports you can check-in at a machine using your credit/bank card purely as a means of identifying yourself. The same system could be used in the toilets then the system would record exactly who went in and at what time, couple that with cameras and it would be very easy to identify the culprits. Obviously expelling the finance industry from the Island would have the same ultimate outcome, if some of the brain-deads posting here are to be believed.

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By: concerned

concerned — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:12:55 +0000

Remove them completely. Have a grass area with large flower beds. Provide a windbreak as cover and you’ve got free fertilizer too. They can’t really do much damage to a windbreak.

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By: Oh Dear

Oh Dear — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:48:33 +0000

Yep and steal someone else’s card, then vandalise the toilets. If you do it in a weird enough way you could get your enemies sectioned. :-)

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By: milly

milly — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:50:03 +0000

you cant have metal basins or toilet pans because if the vandal was to hurt himself there would be an outcry from the human rights lobby.

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By: kat

kat — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:35:28 +0000

open up the old pissior in the weighbridge .all other loos should have a card pass like we use on the bus. we would pay to pee. and it would record who used to loos last before the damage was reported

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By: A.J.

A.J. — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:11:13 +0000

The older style toilets like the one next to the weighbridge were never vandalised (except with pen and ink). Come to think of it,it was probably the smell that caused it to be closed !!!

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By: Town Dweller

Town Dweller — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 14:38:04 +0000

Can I please make the following comment;

“Vandalism to toilets, Police have nothing to go on”.

Feel better now that’s off my chest.

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By: guern abroad

guern abroad — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:36:54 +0000

It is easy to sit in a car, it is harder to be fit enough to spend the day on the beat on foot getting to know your area and people who use it, I suspect this is more to do with why there is less foot work. The push bike idea did not last long with one already been given a moped.

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By: guern abroad

guern abroad — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:35:12 +0000

Many in the UK are now metal fixings.
Didn;t the disabled toilet get vandalised a few months back to a tune of several thousands of pounds, metal fixings may have reduced that bill considerably.

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By: guern abroad

guern abroad — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:33:56 +0000

Hardly a solution to just close the toilets.
Go the metal fixings route, the ones in St Martins are metal from memory picking up on a previous post.

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