Stolen Toilet Paper

6 Oct 2010 - Thieving locals are being blamed for a surge in toilet paper use at Beijing's public parks after statistics showed that each visitor appeared to be using an average of three meters a day, the Beijing news reports. During the National Day holiday, 11 Beijing municipal parks began providing nine public services, including drinking water, toilet paper and hand soap. It was reported that more than 2,300 rolls of toilet paper a day had been used in 142 toilets at the parks. Each roll of toiet paper is about 800 meters long and there have been about 652,400 visitors to the parks each day. Local authorities say most of the toilet paper was stolen by nearby residents. Otherwise, we may be confronted with an underreported diarrhoeal outbreak in the capital.