{"id":287508,"date":"2026-02-17T01:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287508\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:13:14","slug":"public-toilets-vandalised-otago-daily-times-online-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/287508\/","title":{"rendered":"Public toilets vandalised | Otago Daily Times Online News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element img-responsive file-default\" data-delta=\"1\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/toilet_damage_1.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" alt=\"Photo: Dunedin City Council \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Dunedin City Council <\/p>\n<p>A vandal who targeted four of Dunedin\u2019s public toilets destroyed \u2018\u2018anything not made of steel and bolted down\u2019\u2019, meaning the Dunedin City Council was $5000 out of pocket for repairs.<br \/>Over the past weekend, public toilets at the North Ground, outside Gardens New World, in North Rd, and at Marlow Park were damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The council said that while toilets were quite robust, whoever was responsible smashed \u2018\u2018anything not made of steel and bolted down\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Council property services group manager Anna Nilsen said identifying the culprit was going to be difficult as there was no CCTV footage in the areas.<\/p>\n<p>The toilets will be closed while the damage is fixed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Allied Media<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Dunedin City Council A vandal who targeted four of Dunedin\u2019s public toilets destroyed \u2018\u2018anything not made of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-287508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}