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For those readers who've put off travel plans to Melbourne, Australia, fearing toilet crime, rest easy: Melbourne police have concluded "Operation Dalliance" wherein over 104 men were arrested on 299 counts of pee-pee touching and such.

Superintendent Chris Ferguson of the Transit Safety Division said the operation was launched after police received numerous complaints from commuters about activity in the toilets at the Elizabeth Street end of the platforms (note that location well). Dawn was unable to ascertain the nature of the complaints, but suspects that most were made by men who've not gotten blown in years.

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Startlingly, police decided to plant undercover, plainclothes officers in the public crapper during school holidays because of reports of under-age boys prostituting themselves in the toilets. Dawn imagines that the youths nabbed will face charges themselves unless they present themselves as "victims" of their would-be clients.

Newspaper reports did not note whether the police decoys were selected because of the size of their hoses, nor whether any finished getting blown before making their collars.