There is a sauna for that but they don’t listen. “We used to always keep telling guys stop the cruising. “Two guys were being questioned outside but there was a crowd of guys that came running out just as the police went in,” a bystander notes. Officers called to the scene were seen banging on stalls and questioning men during the subsequent raid but no arrests were reported. "Any inappropriate behaviour witnessed in public toilets should be reported to Police Scotland.“I think from now on I’ll be using toilets within premises as I don’t want to experience anything like that again.” I’m gay myself and kind of embarrassed by it.”Ī council spokeswoman said: “The council employs a mobile squad of attendants who visit and clean public toilets around the city seven days a week, as has been the case for some time. “Two guys were being questioned outside but there was a crowd of guys that came running out just as the police went in,” said the 34-year-old from Portobello. “He’s lucky a gay guy hasn’t smacked him, let alone anyone else.”Ī member of the gay community told the Evening News he saw police making their way up the steps of the loos on Wednesday afternoon. “Mind you, this guy is the least discrete person you’ll ever meet,” one user writes. The Mound toilets feature on internet message boards as a popular cruising site for gay men.īut recent posts warn of increasingly brazen behaviour – with one man reportedly “smacked in the face” for propositioning a non-cruising toilet goer. Man found stabbed in Bellshill street named as Ross Gow as police launch 'major inquiry' into murder.Wouldn’t that then make a parent think someone intentionally indecently exposed themselves to a child?” Read More Related Articles “It really concerns me that if a child not with an adult was to go into the toilets what situation is that? Children go back to parents and say they’ve seen things. He went on: “I think from now on I’ll be using toilets within premises as I don’t want to experience anything like that again.
The shocked shopper phoned the city council to be told officers are aware of the problem, but they cannot afford round-the-clock attendants. “Luckily I had my nephew over my shoulder facing the other direction. He said one man was “crouched down at another’s groin” while up to 10 others performed sex acts on themselves. The 32-year-old supermarket worker from Duddingston was on a shopping trip to the city with the little boy when they went for toilet break. Cops launch probe after man and woman found dead in house in Glenrothes.
He told the Edinburgh Evening News: “I totally understand that cruising happens in every city, but to do it in the public view takes it to another level." Read More Related Articles The crackdown at 3pm on Wednesday at the public loos at the foot of the Mound comes after a man and his six-year-old nephew stumbled onto a group of men performing sex acts. Numerous men were questioned at the scene after officers responding to complaints from members of the pubic concerned with the behaviour at the facility. Police raided an Edinburgh public toilet used as a gay cruising hangout, after reports of indecent behaviour in broad daylight.