Can you dig it?
Community councillors want to put 150 garden trowels at roadside stops around tourist hotspots near Ullapool and Dundonnell in a bid to tackle outdoor toileting.
So it’s OK for hundreds of people to pick up dirty trowels but not OK to touch a flag on our golf course or to use a toilet anywhere. How about employing someone to clean and sanitise the toilet after use and charge a quid to use them to pay for the service.
David Daniels
This will only encourage people to use the road side as a toilet. Fine them. Stop them from parking and camping anywhere they want.
June Sinclair
Leave bricks and mortar as well and they can build a toilet.
John Beagrie Every year we get this problem. Admittedly the standard of visitors this year is awful, as a majority of them are moronic novices who haven’t a clue.
Gerry Broadfoot The wild flowers will bloom beautifully next year with all that fertiliser.
Philip Hartley
How anyone can poop in public with all these cars parked is beyond me. Don’t think I could even pee.
Helena Kelly
Anyone can dig a hole with their hands. There should be signs like “no human fouling”.
Catriona Petrie
Put a big sign up: “Hidden cameras in use. Go to the toilet here and we will post your picture all over the internet. Have a good day.”
Fiona Mcallister
No local authority have opened all their public toilets yet but Scotland has declared itself open for “staycations”. Spoke to a couple of female cyclists on holiday who seriously struggled to find anywhere to use. It’s no wonder there is a problem.
Kristian Cooper Most of those befouling wild areas probably wouldn’t know what a trowel actually was, let alone know how to wield one. Shouldn’t have to do this. It will only encourage them Myra Anderson Shone Stevenson It’s incredible the lengths we now go to appease people’s bad behaviour and filthy habits.
Steve Webster
I bet they’ll not use the trowels and steal them
Phil Cowling
The point of the trowel is to use it to launch the offending material as far as possible. Similar to launching rubbers from shatterproof rulers at school.
Roger Booth