Rest area bathrooms aren’t exactly known for their cleanliness. But how bad does it have to get before you close the bathroom and call in investigators to figure out what’s happening?
Just after Christmas, a rest area on I-80 in Nebraska started having issues. A contractor who cleans the restrooms reported that on December 26th, he found the women’s restroom in a sorry state. The walls, floors, sinks, and toilet paper rolls were covered with urine and the sensors on the toilets were covered so that they wouldn’t flush.
It happened again two more times before the rest area decided to close the bathroom between 4:30pm and 6:30am while the attendant wasn’t on duty. But the next day, the rest area just across the highway was vandalized in the same way.
Finally, investigators were called in. DOT officials installed video cameras to record anyone entering or leaving the restrooms.
On January 19th, the video showed a man entering the woman’s restroom. He stayed inside from 10:46pm through 11:32pm. The next day, the same man entered the restroom with a woman and stayed inside for an hour and 14 minutes. Both times the bathroom was given its usual treatment.
Using the video, authorities were able to identify a man as a likely suspect. Investigators also ran the plates of all the vehicles at the rest area and found that one was registered to a woman who looked like the same person in the video.
When they searched her home this month, they found clothes matching what the suspects wore in the videos. Authorities arrested 37-year-old Timothy Welch and 29-year-old Victoria Gilbert.
Both have been charged with criminal mischief, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Gilbert has pled no contest and Welch is scheduled to enter his plea later this month.
Source: journalstar, omaha, beatricedailysun
Jake says
Go job for the authorities. Thumbs up. J
George Nicholas says
The man and woman should get $5000 fine each one, plus 2 years in jail each one. And made to clean these restrooms for at less 6 months.
PupEPerson says
I second that!
Dwayne Oxford says
We have next to no effective punishment. NEED stocks, pillories, whipping post, and gallows back.
wilson says
Losers get a job!
MrYowler says
Did they just not want people to be able to use the restrooms? Were they trying to make some kind ofva statement, or protest something? Are they just disgusting animals? Was it some kind of weird sex thing? Were they angry at the maintenance staff? Trying to spread hepatitis, or pink-eye?
What was the point? Who drives to a rest area just to waste an hour of their lives handling human waste, to spread it around a public restroom?
There is more to this story, and the questions were pretty obvious…
Shar says
Maybe they had the contract on cleaning the rest area and lost it. I know someone who owned a cleaning company back in the day. She used to work for a different one. She found out what they bid on job, started her own company then underbid her old company. It wasn’t long before they found things fouled up in the restrooms.
It would be pretty stupid today to do that with cameras everywhere.
Griffin says
You can’t make sense out of nonsense…
People seem more stupid these days,
Even as phones get “smarter”…
Darwyn Norris says
I worked delivering for a casual dining chain and when we opened a new restaurant in Alabama across from a locally owned restaurant someone came in an secretly dumped mercury around the dining area then anonymously called the health department. We were closed for days for cleaning. Sales never recovered to their previous level and nobody was ever charged.
Griffin says
You can’t make sense out of nonsense…
Carl Wilson says
I absolutely agree, is definitely more to that story.
Cat22 says
Those disgusting pigs ought to get a stiffer sentence beyond a year in jail and a $1000 fine. First they should pay for damages in full. Second they should pay a punitive damage to each facilities owner of at least $1000. Then they ought to be fined by the state and sent to jail for at least 2 years with no chance of early release. Set an example and it might not happen again.
Andrew H says
I think making them clean the bathrooms daily for a year should suffice as jail alternative.
Gearjammer says
The state gets something out of it too instead of just having to feed them on taxpayers dime for a year.
Nathan says
That’s a good idea. Make them work for free for a year. There’s to many people in jail and that costs a lot of money. It’s really not even much of a punishment.
RenoBlues says
You don’t think jail is punishment?
Jay says
RenoBlues, to animals like these jail is summer camp.
Virgil Larone Hiley says
Exactly
Digitalage says
This is agree with instead of us feeding them and housing them in jail let them clean for free for a year…
gail morra says
With a toothbrush
Trucker Mike says
And then USE said toothbrush…ewwwww.
John says
Agreed. Perfect sentence! Sitting in jail isn’t doing anybody any good , maybe tack a fine on them also.
Shar says
And make them clean toilets as part of their restitution.
MARK MURPHY, says
Ahn get chained to the Porto johns..serving our troops poops…in th DESERT hottttttttt. DESERT
Benjamin Atwater says
Both of those weirdos should have to clean those bathrooms with toothbrushes, on their knees.
Every nook and cranny of the walls, floors and toilets using bleach.. twice over each one just for good measure.
After that, pay all the costs and be held to those costs, no bailout, no excuses.
I’m a driver and most of those places are GROSS!
CarolinaGuy says
no, wait people, there is probably a letter of the alphabet designated to describe this particular sex perversion/lifestyle/behavior being carried out here. Let’s not be too quick to judge, right? I’ m sure these two probably feel discriminated against and misunderstood based soley on who they are as a minority, right? Wonder which letter will be used to represent this new group?
Jeffrey Weibel says
This is why I carry a portable camping toilet in my truck. Public restrooms are the worst. I got my camping toilet after I entered a truck stop stall to do my morning business, and saw a “crappy” ass print ON TOP of the seat. This told me the previous user hadn’t properly wiped his bottom, after his previous BM. Imagine what the seat in his truck must smell like. I will only urinate in public restrooms–NO SIT DOWN for this driver–EVER AGAIN!!!
Andrew H says
That Flying J pizza will do that to ya.
Pissbottle Pete says
Now now, let’s not be too quick to judge. No matter how flat u make a pancake, it still has two sides. It’s possible these two were a blind husband and wife team with really bad aim.
LeMon McMickens says
What about a MENTAL evaluation. Those two people are mentally disturbed. They need some help.
Stephen Palmer says
LMAO 37 yrs old and vandalizing a public bathroom. Definition of pathetic.
Shar says
I started my first local job and they showed me where the women’s restroom was and said they would issue a key to me. “A key?” Yes, we are firing one of the men who defaced the ladies room and got caught. He was 40 with 2 children at home. Imagine going home and telling your wife you got fired for clogging up the toilet in the ladies restroom and writing nasty things about the female dispatcher on the walls. Those cameras will getcha.
Buck says
Typical of piggy truck drivers. I bet you anything they were truck drivers the same kind that throw their shift bags and piss bottles on the ground
kc says
Not stated so it’s not good to assume. Yet I get your meaning and totally understand.
STEVEN Wiseman says
Dont recall them saying it was a couple of truck drivers , but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was .
kc says
Interesting life style these 2 live.
Barcode says
It’s great to know that the girl who is cooking your food at the Iron Skillet in York, NE is also participating in watersports at the rest area.
Jason says
Oh damn, you’re not even joking! I found them both on Facebook. Hahahah
Jay says
I was wondering, as I read, if they were disgruntled employees?
Daniel Kennedy says
What is their motive? !000 is not enough ! they should be behind bars and not the draft beer kind!
David Hostetler says
Something similar happened in Georgia 3-4 years ago. All I know is that every rest area in the entire state was closed – due to vandalism, officials claimed. But they opened back up after a few weeks……
Floyd says
I always cover the sensor on the toilets too. Nothing adds to a bad day like having the damned toilet flush while your in the middle of your business.
Trucker Mike says
How do you do that? Some TP??? Or, do you carry something with you?
I agree, don’t like having cold public toilet water sprayed up my keester either.
Jason says
Just drape a length of TP over the sensor, yes. Don’t forget to mummify the seat with more TP as well. Can’t be too careful.
Rambo1 says
” If I can’t see how much room I’ve made,….how can I go to the buffet ! “
Shamus P. Cella says
Well….I think it’s not much farther from what a lot of our fellow drivers do to the restrooms in truck stops and rest areas. I’m ashamed to call myself a driver most days anymore. No respect or consideration for the next person using the facility’s. I know some of you know what I’m talking about…..some of you are guilty of the very vile and disgusting things this couple of degenerates are guilty of.
Kevin says
Let me guess, they’re on public assistance. Who seriously has time to do this kind of thing and why? Idle hands…
Fred Bacon says
Trucking has changed a lot used to be respected profession.
Jay says
Very true. When someone asks me if I’m a truck driver, I simply and very seriously tell them: “no, I just drive a truck”.
boon says
Well, they are not truck drivers, they are a couple local losers who reside in the area. The local news channel had posted there mug shots on television, and the verbal description of there foul acts.
Power punch says
Makes this bad for all of us who needs the rest area for a clean restroom….it’s got to be something with both of them doing a nasty thing like that…they should of made them clean it up and then get arrested….they needed more time in jail…that’s nasty
Jeff Pearson says
A year in jail? How about having to clean all of the state owned restrooms..for a year..as for those that they would displace..you get some time making sure these toilets sparkle after these two idiots clean…or make them clean again…
Mike C. says
I do not use rest room facilities that I do not know. Especially at reat areas. I had stopped at the rest area here in RI A few years back to wash down the urinal and I decided not to because they were all discusting and the shirters were worse. I had to check the water level in my tires ,just to be safe. I don’t know if they have gotten any worse because I don’t go that way any longer.
Trucka T says
Wow violate a private place for no reason….. Senseless crime but not severe enough punishment… Just completely pointless. The restroom is a place to dispose of waste …… Not to spew crap everywhere
Roland says
People are just stupid animals. I am so totally surprised the human race has lasted this long on this planet without wiping itself out.
Jay says
Hey, don’t give up yet. It’s still early.
Joe trucker says
Should have made the rats clean it while someone gave the same treatment to their home….then fined them 5000.00 each
Kenny Bruno says
This story makes absolutely no sense. What was the biohard, overflowing poop and urine? Next, why in the world would some couple with a home camp out in an area rest stop? What’s the motive? Just another excuse for big brother or an excuse to put surveillance at every rest stop in America. Or are we being conditioned for what is to come…One world order, marial law, embedded chip so we are forced to buy and sell where there is no my paper coin currency? Or am I crazy to thrink wont happen. Anyway, thanks for the pointless story as some may comment on my poinless comment or is it? Jesus will return. Are we ready?
Yourawahoo says
These aren’t people there animals. You can just imagine how they live once they get home. I would call them pigs but that would give the pigs a bad name. One day they will need an off site bathroom and it will be closed, because you see karma is a wonderful thing.
Jimmy Steel says
These aren’t people there animals. You can just imagine how they live once they get home. I would call them pigs but that would give the pigs a bad name. One day they will need an off site bathroom and it will be closed, because you see karma is a wonderful thing.
Sowin2u says
They should not send either one to jail so tax payers don’t have to foot the bill. What they need to do is make both of them clean the bathrooms everyday for 1 year without pay instead of 1 year in jail at taxpayers expense.