{"id":182232,"date":"2025-03-04T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=182232"},"modified":"2025-03-04T14:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T04:55:52","slug":"vandals-cause-2000-worth-of-damage-to-far-north-toilet-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=182232","title":{"rendered":"Vandals cause $2000 worth of damage to Far North toilet blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some vandals have left a trail of destruction in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/northern-advocate\/news\/far-north-news-in-brief-census-day-triboard-fire-and-toilet-block-facelift\/TRDDWCHOSZAB7A6VPEV43OCS5A\/\">Far North public toilets<\/a>, including racist graffiti and soil dumped into toilets and urinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vandals targeted a number of Far North toilets over the holiday period, causing around $2000 of damage, and Far North District Council wants help to catch them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toilets at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/lifestyle\/new-zealands-favourite-family-beaches-revealed\/SFCMASFBPUKRDV75NIABITWZ2E\/\">Te Tii Beach, Paihia<\/a>&nbsp;were vandalised last weekend, when all the toilets and urinals were filled with soil or potting mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two contractors had to be engaged by the council to clean up the mess, which meant the facilities couldn\u2019t be used by the hundreds of cruise ship visitors and other tourists enjoying the holiday hotspot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over Christmas, public toilets at Ahipara and Centennial Park in Kait\u0101ia had locks broken on two occasions, and both were sprayed with graffiti utilising racist language. Clean-up and repair costs in each case will be met by the ratepayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vandals targeted a number of Far North toilets over the holiday period, causing around $2000 of damage, and Far North District Council wants help to catch them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":182233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,294,10871],"tags":[15657],"class_list":["post-182232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-new-zealand","category-vandalism","tag-te-tii-beach"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182234,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182232\/revisions\/182234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}