It’s no longer kicking off in New Zealand where local school kids have won their battle to stop members of the public from crapping in their school playground.

Wait… what?!

“Children petitioned the Central Otago District Council in 2016 to help fund a toilet to stop members of the public doing their business in their school yard.”

But still I say: Wait… WHAT?!

Stuff.nz: Kiddiewinks win battle with the council to get a public toilet outside their school to prevent the Phantom Poo Bandits of Otago from crapping in their playground

Fair play to Stuff for getting the word “pooseverance” into the headline, and just look at their happy little faces!

That’s a far cry from earlier this year, where there were sadfaces in the local paper:

Otago Daily Times: Because of complicated reasons, kiddiewinks are building a model of a popular sheep to deter the Phantom Poo Bandits of Otago from crapping in their school playground

And here are the kiddiewinks last year asking the council to do something about the Phantom Poo Bandits of Otago:

Southland Times: Kiddiewinks pile onto the council to get them to do something about the Phantom Poo Bandits of Otago

And you know what?

VICTORY!

And meanwhile, in Australia…

Inner West Courier: Local workers demand that somebody – anybody – does something about the Phantom Poo Bandits of Sydney

Theory: They’re probably tourists, over from Otago and takingf in the sights with a bit of habitual public defecation thrown in.

But in India where defecation in public remains a real problem, they’ve got one or two initiatives on the go.

Odisha TV: Women armed with whistles wage war against open defecation

I originally read that as “thistles”, which would have been magic.

And your take-home from this: Stop crapping in public, you manky nerks