Beijingers exercise collective ownership of public toilet paper
Hidden camera films mostly middle aged and elderly ‘offenders’ making multiple visits to stock up on supplies at popular Beijing tourist site
Photographs of people stealing toilet paper from public bathrooms at one of the most popular tourist destination in the Chinese capital have gone viral online, with some offenders people seen making multiple trips a day to stock up on the commodity, according to a newspaper report.
According to the Beijing Evening News which published the photographs on Wednesday, some people deliberately visit all seven toilets in Beijing’s Temple of Heaven Park to rip off long strands of toilet paper, with some blatantly stashing in their shopping bags.
The report noted that some people made multiple visits a to collect toilet paper. The toilets were promoted by the government to tourists as “star bathrooms”.